Word: fainted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...basic substance of Homecoming, like the base of a perfume, has a terrible smell; but to many moviegoers, the end product will seem quite pleasant. It is superskillfully custom-blended to please the vast public of Gable & Turner. World War II, reduced for long stretches to a faint, faraway hum, appears to have been just an old sweet song...
...have a faint sense of pride in the platoon, not so much in the sense of liking the members of it, as of respect for what it has gone through. They have a mild pride in (partly fear of) a good officer, and a hesitant, partly exasperated approval of the democratic process that has placed them, Jews and anti-Semites, intellectuals and illiterates, in the same unearthly, uncomfortable place. They fight shy of any speechmaking about any of these things. Democracy is not a faith they fight for; it is a sort of punishment they take for not having believed...
Anglican Newman, a sensitive, handsome man gliding through Oxford's quadrangles in his long-tailed coat, became a powerful influence among the undergraduates. They packed the ancient church of St. Mary's to hear his sermons. "As he began to preach, his voice was faint but musical, its pitch rising, though always controlled, till 'the very tones . . . seemed as if they were something more than his own,' as if a power beyond him spoke through...
...Othello, but a better interpretation of Iago than that of Fred Graves might have redeemed the evening's procedings. Mr. Graves is an actor of some polish and a good deal of aplomb, but his Iago is a shallow study of the dissimulating Venetian. It was obvious from the faint smile on his face throughout the play that Mr. Graves was enjoying himself, in his characterization of Iago as a pret-ty clever bird. It seemed as if he were trying to justify Iago, a natural and usually unfortunate thing for an actor to do, by making him something...
...nurses, under whose care Professor Spencer is now recuperating, described his condition upon entering as clearly one of "ventricular fibrillation,"--which decoded, means that the pulse beat is too faint to count...