Word: conceitedness
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Romand's Sabine inspires similarly steady portrayals by the other actors. Dussolier, as the poor besieged Edmond, fills his character with the proper conceited detachment. And Arielle Dombasie as Sabine's best friend Clarisse creates the perfect foil for Sabine. Gorgeous and intelligent. Clarisse lives the perfect, foil for life...
With the New Deal came the New Dealers, a breed unknown in the sleepy Southern town that Washington had been. Rosenman had urged Roosevelt to seek advisers not among the usual politicians and financiers but in the universities. Harvard Law Professor Felix Frankfurter was now sending along a pack of...
The final essay of the volume, "On Translation," reveals Nabokov's understanding of the art he describes. Indeed, he has written in two languages, he has translated the works of others, he has translated his own works, and he has seen his own works translated by others. Even in this...
The drama teacher at High School for the Performing Arts tells the freshman class they will need three things to make it: a strong technique, a good agent, and a thick skin. By the time graduation rolls around, the oncenaive wunderkinder have developed the latter. At its center, Fame is...
BUT THE CONCEITED performance of Sam Neill as Beecham makes Harry and Sybylla's love less credible. He peers from underneath his broad-rimmed hats as if posing for Gentlemen's Quarterly. His one-dimensional and completely uninspired performance clashes with the superb acting of the other characters. Robert Grubb...