Word: artlessly
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...Khanna's Private College, finds settling down a most delicate matter. His family, he complains to a colleague, "have married me to a girl. She doesn't cook. She is not house-proud." As brightly played by Shashi Kapoor, Prem faces life with all the artless perplexity of a man who has just seen his hat run over by a streetcar. His wife Indu (doe-eyed Leela Naidu) is disrespectful-when he criticizes her, she talks back. "They come like lambs and before long they are tigers at your throat," a friend explains. Finally, Prem hits...
...fracas, though, France's first few Estates are undressed and their flabby forms thoroughly mocked. The pudgy bishop with his charming son, the stuttering judge and his artless encourage of wig-wearing half-wits, and the lecherous count hardly evoke respect for the leaders of the old monarchy. They all get their clothes back, finally, with a dab of cau de cologne, but the audience doesn't forget the bandy legs and buttressed bosom it has seen...
...trio of girls accompanying him are Nereids in semidiaphanous slips. The dancers move like sails on a summer sea, now lazing, now racing, sometimes capsizing, then righting themselves as they catch each new breeze of improvisation. There is no story line whatever, but the mood is as artless as love...
...shocks to learn how crudely our leaders speak the language; one thought the pulp puppets of Seven Days in Many only talked that way because they'd just finished Advise and Consent. The truth is that Drury and Bailey and the others had flesh-and-blood models for their artless heroes. And ill-clothed in the cliches, ill-housed in the vapidity, were appallingly undernourished concepts of the problems that a trusting nation had confided to the care of these men. The intellectual frigidity of Dulles produced, of course, the greatest disappointments. Hughes is eloquent in describing both the tone...
Nancy Mitford is a clever and graceful writer, and in this collection of autobiographical and travel pieces, she ranges easily over Ireland, Greece, England. Russia and France. But readers are advised to treat lightly her sly suggestion that she is like Hilaire Belloc's artless water beetle...