Word: cloying
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Enjoying It Less. Perhaps the most damaging case against pornography is stated by Fanny herself: its greatest offense is tedium. She begins her second letter saying: "I imagined, indeed, that you would have been cloy'd and tired with the uniformity of adventures and expressions, inseparable from a subject of this sort, whose bottom, or groundwork being, in the nature of things, eternally one and the same...
...author's principal concern is examined exhaustively and well: If the eye of science offends, should it be plucked out? The heroic Prince de Bary refuses to build war brains for the OSI, and retires to a life of contemplation. Subtly enough that the truth does not cloy, Schirmbeck answers his own question: Science must continue to see, but it must turn its gaze inward...
Author Myrivilis allows for more sentimentality than most; yet it does not cloy. The reason is quite simple: that is how things are. Smaragthi remains consistent to the end, unmarried, herself a sort of mermaid Madonna who rolls naked in the sea like a porpoise but shrinks with revulsion from a man's touch. The fishermen soak up the local booze, beat their wives, and listen with awe to the tavernkeeper's yarns about the wonders of America, where he made his pile. An ancient crone tells wondrous fairy tales. A pathetic schoolmaster dreams of the great...
...latter activity exceeded the former, and when the group played a recording of the late Merrill Moore reading "Death is the only language death can speak," along with several other poems on the same subject, some in the audience found the idea of the fugitive reunion beginning to cloy...
...charge of the United States Department (lending and deposit relations with banks, other businesses outside Manhattan) in 1949. He succeeds J. Stewart Baker, who continues as chairman of the executive committee and as one of Chase Manhattan's two top executive officers (the other: Chairman John J. Mc-Cloy). David Rockefeller, youngest son of John D. Jr. and nephew of former Chase Chairman Winthrop Aldrich, was born in New York City, educated at Harvard ('36), with postgraduate study at the London School of Economics and a doctorate in economics at the University of Chicago in 1940. After...