Word: faults
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...emphasis on repressed sexual energy helped put them on the wrong track. Human anxiety, reported Mowrer, is the result of dammed-up moral force, rather than dammed-up libido; as this force seeps out into a man's consciousness, he experiences it not as guilt about a real fault or sin, but as anxiety...
...hard to figure who is at fault, or why, in the case of the much heralded Italian newcomer, Valli. Her beauty, or better-than-beauty, has an almost reptilian fascination; she is, indeed, the most fatale-looking femme since Garbo. But it remains an open question whether she can act. Hitchcock, keeping her nearly motionless, plies her with one slow, cold, lambent close-up after another. Some of these close-ups function forcefully in the storytelling; but too many are as nonfunctional as her frequent changes of hairdo. It looks as if Hitchcock, one of the smartest directors of women...
...tart reply, the State Department pointed out that the original fault lay with U.N. Hasan had entered the U.S. on a student's visa, and thus had no business getting a reporter's job without consulting the U.S. As for Kyriazidis, he was up for deportation because the two papers he had come to the U.S. to represent had been shut down by the Greek government. Nobody had notified the U.S. until after Kyriazidis' arrest, that he had found a new employer, a small Communist weekly in Cyprus. This looked like a dodge to the State Department...
...Pittsburg Landing, six miles away. Grant did not know that Albert Sidney Johnston, with 40,000 men, was near. At dawn lightning struck, and Grant's Army of the Tennessee was nearly driven into the river. Grant, off in Savannah, Tenn. at the time, was plainly at fault, but four times during the battle he sent messengers to Wallace, to hurry up replacements. Wallace's men did not reach the battlefield until after dark...
...just reached the important cello passage in the first act. The second cellist, a 19-year-old boy, could barely be heard. The composer demanded to know his name. "Toscanini," he was told. Toscanini had played the passage exactly as it was marked-pppp. Patiently, Verdi explained that the fault was his own: he really intended only pianissimo, and had exaggerated his directions to make sure that they would be obeyed...