Word: dimly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...place is Gallodoro, a sunny Italian town living on glorious memories and bundles from America. Its inhabitants take a dim view of work and punctuality. Two bells toll the passing hour, but the noisy gabble makes it almost impossible to tell the time. Snoozing and boozing by the Mediterranean, the happy people of Gallodoro do not care what time it is. They are more curious about the town's liveliest legend, the 14th Duke of Gallodoro...
...emotional, but long, speech effectively. And often the meaning of this speech depends on the contrast between the size of the character and his back-ground. Death of a Salesman contains speeches which are enhanced by this contrast. It contains scenes which draw an effect from a bare, dim stage. The actors move in only one set, and this set seems to be one tiny world, which they never leave...
...cursory examination (the light was dim), Teply found also that the heel bones were broken, apparently beaten "repeatedly, with a very heavy instrument, for example a hammer." Masaryk's hands were also marked as though he had fought desperately before death...
Chesterfield took a dim view of women generally; he felt their proper function was "to suckle fools and chronicle small beer." But in an age of high manners and low morals, it was chic to have a mistress, even more chic to sire a bastard. The earl had both...
Later, when Young appealed for protection against defense insinuations about his credibility, Medina snapped that the witness has no right to "show indignation to a United States judge." Furthermore, Medina took a dim view of Young's boast that he was often successful in taking his case to the public through full-page newspaper ads. "This is a courtroom," warned Medina, "and there will be no appealing to the public over the head of the judge . . . You are only a witness...