Word: adroit
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...debate, Mrs. Roosevelt was clearly ahead on points. The subject that provoked the controversy, the cardinal's loss of temper, and her own adroit mode of expression were all in her favor until she gave way to some quiet gloating in her column about the favorable response in her mailbag. Surely, she must have realized that a considerable proportion of this response came from people afflicted with the fault which had been attributed to her and which she was in the process of disowning...
This time an adroit and determined Southern minority had contrived the battle so that it became merely an argument over rules, and not over civil rights. After 160 years of parliamentary practice, the Senate found itself hopelessly entangled in its own procedures, unable to agree on the rules under which it conducted its disagreements...
...identity dangling (neither the wives nor the audience is in on the secret at first), Writer-Director Joseph L. Mankiewicz explores each wife's marital security in three long flashbacks. Then, with considerable skill and a sort of hard-bitten humor, he pulls off an ending that is adroit but fair, surprising but credible, and warm yet not sticky with sentiment...
...prickly Father Moynihan, engrossed in his scheme, Leo G. Carroll (Angel Street, The Late George Apley) is adroit as always, but he cannot do much more than brighten things up the way flowers do a sickroom. Everything in Jenny Kissed Me is well meant and almost nothing is well handled: it dawdles when it should skip, and sits gabbily on when it should make its excuses...
...long tour (nine months in the Antipodes) of Sir Laurence Olivier and his Lady, Vivian Leigh, came to an end at Tilbury Docks, with the most adroit curtain call of the week. The veteran troupers managed to impart a little of their own sure charm to what would otherwise have been a routine ship-news photograph...