Word: contrivedness
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Hawks carried his shrewdly contrived campaign of artificialized naturalness still further. Time & again he left it up to Lauren to decide for herself about how to play a scene, basing her decision on how she would handle the situation in real life. One of the most successful scenes in the...
Thus Christina Stead, author of the widely acclaimed House of All Nations (TIME, June 13, 1938), describes with mordant skill the turmoil within her young heroine, the schoolteacher who seemed such a prude but who alone in her room paraded her nudity in obscenely contrived costumes and prayed to Venus...
Eastward on the Adriatic, the British Eighth Army, which had actually been the first to break the Gothic Line (by capturing Rimini), was making slow prog ress across a lacework of canals and rivers. Home-front strategists who had talked of "debouching into the plain" with tanks had failed to...
So said the War & Navy Departments last week in an OWI statement: V-day may be spread gradually over days and weeks. No general surrender of the German Armies is expected; they may gradually disintegrate and surrender piecemeal. And the Allies' policy is not to accept surrender from any...
In this rattlebang old stage hit by Floyd Dell and Thomas Mitchell (Little Accident, 1928) Mr. Cooper comes by his crushing responsibility somewhat unconventionally. For some time, in fact, as Cooper and his prospective second father-in-law Frank Morgan gamily swap innuendoes, the audience thrills to the possibility that...