Word: dejectedness
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Moving as this story often is, the film suffers from compression. In the effort to confine the action to a single day, the screenwriters lean on stagy plot contrivances that are endemic to old-fashioned plays. Mastroianni's performance adds another synthetic note: this fine actor works hard, but...
Most searing of all is Turner's tearjerking meaculpa, tracing his discovery that he would have to tread a different path in life. The moment comes at perhaps Turner's lowest point in the film; he has just finished "blowing off the lid" completely with a striking male hooker, and...
Certainly the union does not lack enthusiasm. After last Thursday's balloting, as Powers was flashing a cautious victory smile and hustling past a dejected Sullivan and her supporters, a union backer called after him, "We'll be back next year Ed--same time, same channel." Powers, Steiner, and the...
A dejected Ellen Hart admitted she was disappointed over the loss to Princeton, but she said, "We still had a great time, and that's what it's all about."
Dejected Satan to his wife complains: