Word: annoyment
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Halsey and Collaborator Bryan play one game throughout the Story which will annoy all but the Admiral's most devout fans. Halsey is made to strike a modest pose but permits the "editor" to enter his citations and whatever flash compliments piled up during a period of wartime hysteria...
...film may annoy those who do not thoroughly enjoy "swinging" everything in sight. It is also mildly dismaying to see that when the Muse of Dancing is really being herself, in her own ballet sequence, she can't even get up on her points. Put after all, Down to Earth is a musical, and musicals are forgiven almost anything...
...goes back to the Thirteenth Century, when Russia was menaced by a medieval German army, and concerns the over-whelming victory of the Russians under their hero, Nevsky. Though the tale is told as simply and as powerfully as an epic, there is much there to disgust and annoy American audiences. The extravagant hero-worship will only increase our lack of understanding of the Russian mind, while little can be found to excuse the vengeful care with which the camera follows the last efforts of the defeated soldiers drowning in an ice flow...
Lucian Freud's blast at British painting [TIME, May 26] is not the first time one who found refuge in Britain has assailed the British. . . . The strange thing is that the very qualities which annoy such as he, account largely for Britain being a haven for the victims of intolerance in other countries. Mr. Freud's accusation that British art "is all just inspired sketching" caused me to look through a book of etchings by various British artists. Inspired is the right word...
...debatable point. In the incomparable conversational scenes he carries the counterpoint off very well, the satiric and comic lines coming through especially effectively. In the soliloquies, however, the incredible monotony of Evans' style, his constant reliance on purely vocal effects rather than any real acting techniqque, and the annoyingly false diction which leads him to pronounce words like "force" as "fawwwce" all begin to annoy...