Word: captiousness
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...Erich von Stroheim directed Mae Murray and John Gilbert in the second. Cinemaddicts who have seen all three are likely to find the current version, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, as far superior to the second as the second was to the first. Only the most captious critics could find any fault with a picture which fairly entranced audiences with its oldtime music and glamour...
...like the methods you are using to solve the problem; I believe it would be far better if we were to use the following alternate method'' ... In this great evolution through which we are passing, the average American is doing splendid service by coming back at the captious critic and saying to him. "Well, old man, and what do you suggest...
With the exception of Arnold Korff, who has a tendency to throw himself about too much so that the audience is occasionally distracted, and misses the essential action, the acting of the entire cast was flawless. On reflection, it is captious to complain about Mr. Korff; his suppressed guffaws and waving of arms were in keeping with the part of the second-rate good-natured composer. Jay Fassett, Earle Larrimore, and Ina Claire are the principals; be it sufficient to say that they are consummate professionals, that Miss Claire's laugh is infectious, and that a few more actresses...
...best-seller for 24 months-not equalled by any other U. S. novel. Says Introducer Richard J. Walsh: "It seems clear that no native Chinese, however schooled in English prose, could have written of his own people as Mrs. Buck has written of them." Some captious critics think Authoress Buck's reputation as unsubstantial as China's boundaries, but plain readers who do not worry their heads about literary hierarchies continue to read her with pleasure & profit. This collection of stories about China, though somewhat over-reverently introduced by Publisher Walsh of John Day Co., speaks for itself...
Possibly Torquemada is too real and lusty a term to apply to a society dominated by forces so complacent and so suburban. The nexus that binds these captious ladies with Saratoga and Bunker Hill has come to be a mere bloodless atavism. Probably the catholicity of vision required to realize that George Washington was, after all, a rebel, would be too much to ask of his spiritual daughters. But, at least, they might find innocuous content in polishing their guns and genealogies, and withdraw their febrile antiquarianism from the serious problems of politics and government...