Word: cutely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lady then handed me a mimeographed biography which ended my questions. According to the dope sheet, she is 5' 5" and 113 lbs. But I assure you, she's not over 5' 3" and she weighs only 108. But she sure is cute...
Donskoy's way with children is as remarkable. Half his cast was children, and he treated them like adults with the result that there is little cute or faked about their performances. Though Alyosha Lyorsky acts with great charm, Young Gorky is the least convincing of the children. He is too often posed. Sometimes, when he should apparently be silently storing up observations as befits the future founder of Socialist Realism, he just stares. Similarly, S. Tikhonravov, as the anarchist lodger, falls victim to the Soviet preferences for gallant poses...
...world were one vast, closed powder room. And though the scriptwriters have kept the play's plain plot (gossip wrecks marriage, husband marries golddigger, wife gets him back), they have jazzed it up with plenty of new wisecracks-some of them acute, others merely cute...
...with Lamb is to see him whole. Some see only the mischievous little drunkard who "taught one little girl to say the Lord's Prayer backwards," tweaked William Wordsworth's nose and addressed him as, "You rascally old Lake poet!" Some see him as an overelaborate, rather cute stylist; others brush aside what they feel are merely trappings and hail Lamb as one of the kindest, most generous men that ever lived. Editor Matthews manages to include all these Lambs in his selection and to write what is probably the truest, briefest epitaph: "His friends loved...
...secret out, it is two stories. It tells the same incident-a marital quarrel-from the point of view of the husband as well as the wife.* Like "his" and "hers" towels in the bathroom, the notion is apt to be a little obvious and excessively cute. But if the reader can keep from getting dizzy turning the book over, he will still have fun, because behind Author "Virginia Rowans" hides the beard of Edward Everett Tanner III, who, under the pseudonym of Patrick Dennis, wrote the runaway bestseller, Auntie Mame...