Word: cunningness
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The author, Benjamin Britten, a leading composer of modern operas, must have had a wonderful time writing this. The complete originality of the first act either charms or annoys the listener, depending on his own responsiveness. The children appear as awful amateurs who have only enthusiasm. And when conductor Norman...
For the judges, always in full pursuit of the pack, the weeding-out process was partly simplified as some of the hounds got out of touch and ranged clear out of sight over the hills. Other hounds "babbled," i.e., bayed before the scent was picked up, and were promptly disqualified...
"Exposed to relentless hostile fire," he read, "[Chambers] coolly reorganized his battle-weary men, inspiring them to heroic efforts by his own valor and leading them in an attack on the critical, impregnable high ground from which the enemy was pouring an increasing volume of fire . . ." For eight hours on...
But his rage is usually supplanted by a mood of hilarity and revivified cunning. When the pro-Republican Pittsburgh Press protested that his venal, pompous and reactionary politico, Senator Jack S. Phogbound, was a calculated libel on the reputation of the U.S. Senate, Capp had a soft and devilish answer...
"Blundering" British. In Napoleon's view, of course, it was the "logic" of France's condition, not his own ambition, that made him a dictator. "Lamentable weakness" on the part of their rulers had filled Frenchmen with such profound "uneasiness" that they inevitably picked him as the man...