Word: chillness
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...Battle of France was as good as lost, and the Germans admitted it. In addition to whining unofficial talk about "harsh or mild peace terms," the Berlin radio broadcast a chill War Ministry statement : "We must be prepared for a German withdrawal from France. We must expect the loss of places with world-famous names...
...toast black, the coffee thin and acid-and the waitress doesn't care. And at night the intrepid traveler is not surprised to return and find the room still unmade, the bureau still undusted and the damp towel still on the untidied washstand. If the night is chill he may as well go sit in the lobby: no one knows where the blankets are. If he tries to phone for help he will get nothing but a dull, buzzing noise...
...pictures were pen drawings of U.S. soldiers in Africa and Italy. His 34 prewar oils were landscapes of California, Texas, Brazil, some still lifes, several portraits. One large canvas pictured a monumental, seated Frieda Lawrence (widow of late great Brit ish Novelist D. H. Lawrence), her chill eyes peering from a heavy face, fringes of her shawl spilling like black blood from...
...version began with a group of passengers aboard an ocean liner. Audiences enjoyed a creeping chill as they became aware that the fellow travelers were genteel ghosts outward bound for eternity. In the new version most of the passengers are slapped into the Beyond by a bomb at the beginning of the film, and cinemaudiences know from the start what they are in for. Result: a notable lapse in 1) suspense, 2) immediacy, since the presence of Merchant Mariner George Tobias hardly compensates for the lack of a single uniform aboard the strangely uncrowded phantom ferry...
Jolting take-offs and stops scrambled Britons with Britons, Britons with Americans. Passengers clung each to each, forgot the chill reserve common to Anglo-Saxon bus riders the world over...