Word: disconnectedness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
WANNA KNOW what the movie was about? As far as I could see, a whole lot of nothing. Three hours of it. I could have been home watching T.V. and listening to the guys next door getting high or cracking up, and the threads would have hung together better than...
Such disconnected nuances reveal a truth that formal history can hardly capture, and they are in absolute contrast to the craft of acting. In the Guinness film, Eva Braun was played as a glamour puss, vaguely resembling Dominique Sanda. The real version was otherwise: a giggling, curly blonde Aryan squaw...
This lack of distancing serves another purpose. In Ionesco, style is a matter of short, enigmatic statements couched between ramblings of apparent irrelevancy, nothing following logically. With so little attention paid to causation, the words seem disconnected from the character who speaks them, from the setting, and from the dramatic...
Avneri's cut was unfair as well as unkind. The problem is larger than one aging (74) grandmother's inability to identify with youth. Without even realizing the fact, Israel in the course of 25 years has evolved from a pioneer state into an established society, and like...
The experiments also posed problems. Cernan worked so hard trying to drill holes for the important heat-flow experiment-which had been inadvertently disconnected on the Apollo 16 mission-that his pulse climbed to 150 beats per minute. NASA doctors, monitoring his heartbeat, ordered him to rest. Coming to Cernan...