Word: facelessness
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...Paris, they are known as "the Flying Knights" because of their titles and breathless commuting between capitals. With their support, the Lord Privy Seal has won a degree of respect from the Eurocrats that is rarely granted British officials on the Continent. Round the horseshoe table in the faceless slab that houses Belgium's Foreign Ministry on Brussels' Rue des Quatre Bras, they soon discovered that Heath's affable
...that, Maria Light remains a faceless and not fully realized heroine in an otherwise excellent novel. She does not breathe the way the city breathes. Already a good novelist, Lester Goran will become an important one when he can draw his major figure as well as he sketches the small ones: "Archie came in the door with his habitual stoop although the door opening was well above his head." he writes of one quickly come-and-gone man in this book. "He had that shy manner that always indicated that what he was going to say was not worth hearing...
Oxford's Sir Kenneth Clark respects and admires the faceless art of abstract expressionism, but he does not think it will be around forever. At Wellesley last week, he prophesied: "The imitation of external reality is a fundamental human instinct which is bound to reassert itself." To prove his point. Sir Kenneth talked about two kinds of painters-apes and children-whom the crudest of critics like to lump with the abstract expressionists...
...runs a third-rate hock shop can be excused for taking a crabbed view of humanity. To his barred window, clutching their appalling array of tattered goods, come junkies, alkies, homosexuals, whores and pimps, as well as the faceless poor. Reflecting on his part in these endless, trivial transactions. Sol Nazerman, the Harlem pawnbroker, "became filled with the idea that he was building a tower of junk, struggling and draining himself to amass nothing . . . For him the core of life was there in all its reality: brutal, wretched, and grasping...
...every intercepted conversation must be recorded, expertly translated, evaluated, transcribed and filed for future use. Organized espionage on such a scale demands a vast, faceless army of snoopers: technicians, "planters," linguists, analysts. State Department security men estimate that, to cover the offices, homes and cars of one medium-sized (30-man) Western mission in a Communist city, up to 300 fulltime eavesdroppers are needed. Moscow has 49 non-Communist embassies...