Word: briefest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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What spiritual meaning, indeed, could be found in the briefest pontificate in more than 3½ centuries? Perhaps, reasoned some Catholics, John Paul was preaching a final sermon to his beloved flock, a reminder of the fragility of human existence and the unpredictable but inevitable fact of death. "His death reminds us how small and how weak man is, that life and death are mysteries, that we are in God's hand," said Willebrands. "That is why we also have faith...
Your issue was a delight, but in all those pages on the glorious emergence of the South, there was only the briefest nod toward the reason why we're booming down here. If it weren't for air conditioning, the South would be uninhabitable, by modern standards, for six to nine months of the year...
...director has patiently sought out the inner dynamics of the film's many short scenes involving characters who have no lasting relationship with Woodward and Bernstein or anyone else in the film. His ability to find drama in the way a cup of coffee is handled, in the briefest play of emotions across the troubled face of a reluctant informer, is remarkable and invaluable in preventing the film from being no more than a historical record, a documentary in the dullest sense of the term. In fact, the entire Woodward-Bernstein relationship is built up not in the script (where...
...comfort a weeping Indian girl; she cried not from the pain of a broken leg but because no one could tell her what had happened to her family. Hundreds of corpses were hastily buried in mass graves; some names were recorded but other bodies were interred with the briefest of notations, such as: "Found in Guatemala City Zone 5, was wearing red dress, had one gold tooth...
DONNY & MARIE (ABC, Friday, 8 p.m. E.S.T.)-Osmond, that is-are not to be accorded even the briefest benefit of the doubt. The family's patented musical style is basically "Gee whiz, kids, I've got a swell idea. Let's put on a show." This is an impulse that should have been dealt with in preadolescence...