Word: debonairly
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Alger Hiss dressed and presented himself once again in Judge Clancy's courtroom. His debonair manner had vanished. His boyish face was a bleak, set mask. He was charged, he was told, with perjury. How did he plead? "I plead not guilty to both counts," he said...
...crusader, setting forth like Wendell Willkie to take the nation by storm. He was no debonair partisan like Franklin Roosevelt, raking the opposition with scornful broadsides...
...sees no essential inconsistency in his position. He does not see any incongruity in the grandson of Uncle Henry reading with an air of furious sincerity a speech ghostwritten for him by Lewis Frank Jr., the debonair son of a Detroit Christmas tinsel manufacturer. The Frank speeches, so different from Wallace's own rambling style, bristle with Communist clichés, un-deviatingly follow the Communist line...
...role of Anna like a pussy cat with a tigress by the tail. She is not assisted by a script which insists on sentimentally ennobling one of fiction's most vehemently average women. Irish-born Kieron Moore, Britain's newest cinematinee idol, is badly miscast as the debonair Vronsky; he appears to be an idol with feet of peat. The principals suffer further by comparison with Sir Ralph Richardson, whose Karenin fairly lumps out the screen with its three-dimensional reality...
Casting in "Sleep My Love" is unfortunate, with Miss Colbert in the role of a very young wife and Don Ameche as the ogre. But their performance considering physical handicaps are adequate. Robert Cummings is debonair as the passing hero, and gives a fair imitation of the snave prewar Robert Montgomery. George Colouris is his customarily minister self, and Hazel Brooks, oh well, she'll never learn...