Word: dismays
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jewish girl, to the strains of that old piano favorite, "I'd like to buy the world a Coke..." On the trip from New York to Miami for their honeymoon, Lila gradually reveals her clumsy, frumpy self (and the wide range of Berlin's comic talents), to the growing dismay of her husband. She proudly thrusts her bare breasts at him in the car, nearly causing an accident. She chews gum loudly, eats candy in bed, and constantly chatters about what their life will be like after 50 years of marriage. Lila suffers from a fatal form of Midas disease...
Despite the impressive victory totals, the performance against Brandeis was sloppy, and at times abysmal. And the frustration of close bouts (there were seven 5-4 bouts, a good indication that the bouting is of poor quality) justified Marion's dismay...
Conor Cruise O'Brien continues to inform and dismay. He is an Irishman of Catholic ancestry and sympathies, whose family circle included agnostics, anticlericals and persons whom an old-fashioned liberal would call "emancipated." An exotic heritage, by Irish standards anyway, which perhaps accounts for his penchant for exposing outwardly altruistic policies that are, in his view, really selfish, cynical and exploitative...
...typewriter, and if we had no typewriter there would be no need for the office building. So we surround ourselves with expensive bricklaying tools or machinery with which to transpose our thoughts into solid, soul-satisfying, black-on-white print and go to it. To our dismay, we find that our initial endeavors are not what we hoped them to be. Our bricks are laid slightly askew, or our words do not seem to express just what we had intended them to portray. So-o-o, we call in an experienced mason, who, by applying a T-square, straightens...
...development of his socialist tendencies. Not unnaturally he looked to his marginal class background, and humiliating status as a scholarship boy at very snobbish schools. It is a vein that can be mined only so far, so Orwell generally diverts his energies from explaining his personal disorientation, disenchantment and dismay. Instead he evocatively and intuitively explores how the situations that affected him came to be. The man had a distaste for social theory that matched his descriptive ability, and the result was a socialist with politics based on "decency" and most often defined negatively. The product was powerful prose oddly...