Word: encumberances
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Handel's L'Allegro and II Penseroso was written only a short time before the Messiah, but the guileless artifice of his musical imitations of Miltonic imagery, and the prankish innocence of its harmonies sound only distantly related to the Christmas oratorio. For this easy good humor, Miss Addison's...
As one, they declared he was bound to encumber
Nathaniel Frothingham, the director, and Todd Lee, the see designer are both to be congratulated--as heartily for what they neglected to do as for what they did. Frothingham did not encumber the play with useless "business" in order to keep the audience "interested." His first effort was always to...
For British politicians it has long been a cardinal principle of after-dinner oratory to throw in at least one glowing reference to the intangible strength of the Commonwealth, a globe-girdling club whose members are allegedly linked by spiritual bonds so powerful that they do not need to encumber...
Like all the Disney adaptations of famous boys' books (Treasure Island, Rob Roy), Kidnapped shuns the grandeurs that encumber most of Hollywood's hysterical historicals. The picture is made to the scale of the book, which is modest. Unfortunately, in trying to keep it small, Director Stevenson has...