Word: blemishes
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...dignity and which threaten human freedom. One never doubts his sincerity and authority. Yet his feelings tend to overshadow some of his work, the flame obscures the value of the poem as a whole. Selections from Frescoes for Mr. Rockefeller's City (1932) and Public Speech (1936) have this blemish, although they contain, vivid imagry. MacLeish's thought is poignant and direct; but one becomes exhausted with sheer oratory...
...only blemish on the whole job is the slight confusion created by the first flashback within a flashback. This, however, detracts little from an otherwise top-rate film...
...floor and the dog was unhurt. When the man returned the second day, he discovered a new puddle. Outraged, he again tossed the puppy out the window. By the third day he hoped he had trained the dog. Anxiously he entered the living room to find another, even larger blemish, but no dog. He had trained the pup well enough--trained him to jump out the window after misbehaving...
...beauty but a blemish to be hidden Behind judicious rags, driven and scorched...
...Crimson, tinged green in the lower echelons, is trailing a five win, three loss, and one tie record behind it at mid-season. Two of the three losses were thumping 9 to 0 debacles from the racquets of the powerful University of North Carolina. Cornell smeared the other blemish on the Crimson record, also...