Word: driftful
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...comment that Amer ica was born in "black revulsion." Black with wrath, Endecott orders Merry Mount burned to the ground and the Indians massacred. The historical moment is a century and a half before the American Revolution, but as the first shots are fired, and puffs of acrid smoke drift across the stage, the playgoer sniffs the unmistakable odor of revolt...
...sometime prostitute (Estelle Parsons) whom he has just married to meet his half-breed half brother (Harry Guardino) just as the family farmhouse is threatened with flood, we have the classic elements of a Tennessee Williams play. Unhappily, the early Williams' drive seems to have succumbed to drift, and eloquence to colloquialisms. Despite uniformly excellent acting, Myrtle seems like a sleepwalking tour of a dusty attic...
...Diaspora-when, like Judaism, it will survive in the form of a scattered few, the hidden remnant. Strangely enough, there are any number of Christians who rejoice at this prospect rather than fear it. This is not because they want to see the fainthearted and the half convinced drift away into unbelief. Rather, they prefer that the choice of being Christian once again become openly, as Kierkegaard puts it, a leap of faith, an adult decision to serve as one of God's pilgrims on the road of life...
...Reve. Dying of cancer, Big Daddy recalls his power as king of the Delta. In his earlier plays, Williams would rip apart this Chekhovian mood music with staccato drum bursts of violence. But in recent years he has virtually abandoned violence without discovering a substitute. Drive has succumbed to drift...
Opponents of continental drift have argued that there is no good explanation for the stupendous forces that would be required to move continents thousands of miles apart and no reason for them to drift in different directions...