Word: brazenness
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...fares. He instructs the captain of the boat to come back in a year to the same spot and look for a signal from him. Should it be a yellow flag flying the message is that he cannot stand it any longer and must leave, if a red flag, "Brazen blown against the blue" he will stay on Rael and make it his home...
...Babe and A Winter's Tale in Georgia. A ruined Southern family waits for the last murderous blow of the Civil War in Sherman's brazen march through the entire swamp of the South. The hurricane comes and the upheaval is as potent as it is wide-ranging. To Mrs. Chestnut, the Southern lady of the manor who tries to preserve her hopes, which comes to mean in the end simply preserving the life of her last son, the effects are puzzling but no more. To the blacks, (the only ones shown in the play are a group of captured...
...Monsignor Joseph A. McCaffrey, it often seemed as if the devil himself had been the architect of his parish. At night, the streets teem with vagrants, homosexuals and brazen hookers. Bookstores flaunt their pornographic wares, and nudie movie houses flicker a mix of erotica and violence almost until dawn. As pastor of New York's Holy Cross Roman Catholic Church on 42nd Street, only two blocks off Broadway, McCaffrey spent 36 years crusading against the seamy side of the Great White Way. Acting like a one-man Legion of Decency, he won the newspaper title "Bishop of Times Square...
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...much of the evening, Jason (Pe ter MacLean) also seems to be Lucifer, ranging between brazen malice and wily seductiveness. He has summoned into session a kind of miniature parliament of seven representative humans, and he wants to wring from them a unanimous vote for fire. Sometimes he uses verbal third-degree tactics, evocative of the rapid-fire non sequiturs gunned at each other by the characters in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead...