Word: disaffectedness
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Most of these beauties, alas, were the creations of his pressagents or the chronically disaffected habitues of the commissary writers' table. What truly distinguished Goldwyn was his fussy insistence on applying the same standards of "good taste" to his movies that he applied to his dress. Even more important...
Much of Travis McGee's appeal is due to his point of view, which is one of slightly disaffected middle age. He may be 6 ft. 4 in., a weapons expert and a former N.F.L. tight end (as who is not, in fantasy?). But he gripes constantly, with some...
When the junta of right-wing army colonels seized power in Greece in 1967, they promised, with characteristic fervor, a regime of "Christian reform and purity." At the time, few things in Greece seemed to need reform and purity more than the Greek Orthodox Church itself, which encompasses-at least...
What Wall Streeters would like most is a sustained, resolute upswing in prices. In the past, a roaring bull market has never failed to bring back disaffected investors. But that raises a chicken-and-egg question: Can the big price rally needed to bring individual investors back occur if they...
The writer required paragraphs to detail the procedures of an international man hunt, not to mention the procedures of the Jackal himself, a hired gun employed by disaffected French army officers to assassinate Charles de Gaulle.