Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everything is stupidly done: the people are schoolbook figurines, the lovers absurd, and even the well-photographed scenes, such as the Paris mob singing the "Marseillaise," the carpenters working on the scaffold, the march to the palace, the fight with the palace guards, are spoiled by bad detail. The carpenters, for instance, have the enunciation of experienced Shakespearean actors. The marching mob, supposed to be recruited from the slums, all have the same kind of torches, as though their supplies for the attack on the palace had been issued by a circus property-room. Silliest shot: John Boles getting Laura...
...Jesuit Martyrs of North America meticulous Father John J. Wynne, S.J., describes with careful detail how the martyrs were tortured in the New York and Canadian woods by Indians who tore out their nails, hair and beards, chewed their fingers, and as one martyr said "even went so far-a savage act-as in cold blood [to] wound us with their nails, which are extremely sharp, in the most tender and sensitive parts of the body." Eventually all eight were despatched by the Indians, several with tomahawks. There is no question of the heroic circumstances of their deaths. But many...
...physical aspects of the study of existing conditions are included in a study now in active progress under the direction of a member of the faculty of the Engineering School. The nature of the work makes it impossible to say much about it in detail, because of the danger of arousing misdirected public enthusiasm...
...Emperor of Japan and the U. S. Congress to become effective, by which Japan accepts an approximate 67% of the British -U.S. naval strength instead of the 70% she had been demanding before Japan's recent election confirmed Prime Minister Hamaguchi in office (TIME, March 3). In detail...
Though his book purports to be a comparison of historical religions, most of it is concerned with Christianity, as the religious form most familiar to the western world. Mencken examines Christianity in detail, its Founder, its Bible, its Church...