Word: aimlessly
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...Geneticist William Bateson was so backward in school that his headmaster wrote: "It is very doubtful whether so vague and aimless a boy will profit by University life." He remained fabulously vague: he would buy a ticket to a play and show up by mistake at a musical show, grub in his garden in a brand-new suit and go to London in dirty old garden flannels...
...Favorite Spy," Kyser's band plays about one and a half musical numbers, and spends the rest of the time following its one-lunged maestro around through an aimless plot involving--surprise!--Nazi spies and saboteurs, and an assorted bunch of blondes and brunettes. If Kyser is worried about his future, he can eliminate acting as a possibility. He'd better hold on to that orchestra...
Ladd doesn't really "steal" the show, as newcomers often do. That would be somewhat difficult, since he is the whole show himself. Appearing in nearly every scene, and dominating every other character in the story, Ladd neatly pulls a weak and often aimless story up by his own bootstraps into the realm of first-rate escapist filmfare. As Raven, the grim and psychopathic gunman who doesn't even bother to blink when he polishes off his daily quota of victims, he glides easily through a part that in other hands might well have degenerated into another "boy-from...
...like a traffic cop, and then hooked another one. Five more bars of toe-stubbing and then fingernails pinched into his shoulder. At times Vag couldn't tell whether he was cutting in or being drafted to replace some earnest partner whose conversation ran in the well-dredged but aimless channels of "I go to Harvard, where...
...result is the Air Force which so far has had its way in the southwest Pacific. It is not the Air Force of the brutal, aimless, bootless raids of Chungking. It has been as smooth as a team of riveters tossing white-hot rivets into tiny buckets, or driving them cleanly home. In Malaya this Air Force confused and broke the British, made their calm confidence look like childish complacency...