Word: cagey
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...cold, muddy waters of Shanghai's Soochow Creek teemed with thousands of Chinese junks and smaller sampans. Terrified refugees were preparing once more to flee before the surging tide of communism. Nevertheless, the great majority of Chinese were becoming more reconciled to the prospects of communist rule. The cagey Reds had switched to a "soft" 1945-1955 The decade after 1945 saw jubilation at the arrival of peace, and anxiety as the Cold War took shape — and a wedding took place in London 1956-1966 New sounds in the air, protest in the streets and revolution in the hills...
...zaniness and implausibility. Particularly arresting were Michael R. Von Korff ’07’s wacky performance as a madcap duck enthusiast in “Duck” and Ellen C. Quigley ’07’s mercurial shifts in emotional expression as the cagey, egotistical Jen in “The Lifeboat is Sinking.” Carolyn A. McCandlish ’07 is also to be praised for her acting range, playing both the titular role in a recitation of the poem “Sarah Cynthia Silvia Stout Would Not Take...
Director John Madden is generous and fair to all but one of the lead actors. As Catherine's father, Anthony Hopkins gets at the heartbreaking semblance of clarity in a great mind gone astray. Jake Gyllenhaal, as a student who beds Catherine, has the cagey grace to make us both fond and suspicious of him. Hope Davis is Catherine's businesslike sister; it's a cold hand, stacked against her, in a movie that exalts intuition, that sees higher mathematics as no less an art than Beethoven's, and commerce as a craft no subtler than accounting...
...more than our abilities." Granted, we know Harry will not succumb to anger and evil. But we never stop feeling that he could. (Interestingly, although Rowling is a member of the Church of Scotland, the books are free of references to God. On this point, Rowling is cagey. "Um. I don't think they're that secular," she says, choosing her words slowly. "But, obviously, Dumbledore is not Jesus...
Most cowboy poems speak of real events and people, from bucking horses and cagey cows to old Stetson hats and long winter travels. Although they focus on the ordinary stuff of life, their truths, at least to cowboys, seem no less eternal than those penned by William Shakespeare. Some cowboy poems are bust-a-gut funny; a few are downright dirty. And some are just plain awful. But many carry an honest, primitive power, like these lines from Vern Mortensen's Range Cow in Winter...