Word: childishness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Soon, of course, the perfect crime collapses into a heap of all-too-human, even childish errors-Judd was so rattled that he dropped his spectacles beside the body of the victim. The boys are questioned, tricked into confession, ordered to trial...
...peddler with an unsavory reputation. When, under third degree, he confesses to the murder and then commits suicide in his cell, the local chief of police and everyone else consider the case closed-all except Inspector Matthäi, who is sure the murderer is still at large. A childish school drawing made by Gritli before her death gives him the clue he needs, and he goes to work-alone, since the other cops will not help. When he is dropped from the force, Matthäi opens a gas station and hires a former streetwalker with a young daughter...
...gifted a colorist as he is a draftsman. His heavy, almost garish, coloring emphasizes how far he has turned from the nice distinctions of tone and shade in eighteenth and nineteenth century Japanese prints. This very simple style, more Western than Oriental, mainly produces naive results; the childish, pseudo-folk art atmosphere of Stones in Water and Hawk Woman is most disturbing. However, the best color print, Nirvana, is so excellent that one is sorely tempted to modify one's attack on Munakata's color schemes. Here, in this haunting, mystical picture, color plays a positive and entirely thought...
...incorruptible self of Cabiria gleams out from her bought and sold body just as her eyes peer vivacious and warm through the painted expression of her face. Her eyes speak childish mischief to a man, even though he infers it to be winking lewdness...
...football season is over down at Princeton and the fellows have set aside their childish things. The black and orange pennants are safely tacked over the mantle, the silver steins glisten in a row, and lights burn late as the chill dusk gathers in across the rolling lawns. Happy thoughts of golden autumn weekends linger, but the mood is one of manly anticipation: Bicker, once again, draws high...