Word: errantly
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...equally trim (5 ft. 10½ in., 158 Ibs.), he is flamboyant and mercurial, takes mambo lessons for relaxation. Wooldridge marshals his thoughts carefully, is all business and lucidity, can make abstruse technical problems easily understandable to a layman; Ramo speaks impulsively, lets his thoughts bounce around like an errant light beam...
...forth among them, the actions proceeding out of their affected personalities despite themselves, make the film fascinating to watch. The lever on which the study is poised happens to be Justice, and there are a few soggy lines about how wonderful it is to have juries, but the errant enjoyed simply on the merits of the actors and their direction...
Ballots & Bail. Jimmy spent 25 years building his army among the hard-put widows and workingmen in his district. At Christmastime and Thanksgiving, he handed out turkeys to neighborhood families. He bailed out errant youngsters and toughs, whispered pleas to magistrates, found jobs for the hopeless. He swept into local political primaries with ballot stuffers and phony votes, wrecked opposition organizations, beat off a Tammany headquarters attempt to stamp him out, maintained absolute power in his district...
...tale and goes out of bounds in the telling. Motherhood may or may not be sacred, but it cannot for three acts without respite be altogether happily profane; the theme turns more than dubious, it turns dull. And the telling in Tunnel is no help. In dealing exclusively with errant husbands, expectant wives and unwed mothers, it is essential that there be a light touch that leaves no smudge, a swift skating tempo that outrides thin ice. The Tunnel of Love gives even its brightest remarks the neon lighting of the wisecrack instead of the sheen of wit; it makes...
...matter," said the dean, "it would place an intolerable burden upon an instructor who must at semester's end read and grade from 275 to 600 examination books to require that he mark the misspellings, the solecisms, and the abuse of language, and undertake to explain to the errant the proper usage." A course in remedial writing would not be feasible either. Warren's recommendation: that the colleges give each prospective law student an examination in expository writing at the end of his junior year to see if he needs extra work. Passing a second test would become...