Word: fearless
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Sabatini's talents as a stylist lie well to the south of, say, Sir Walter Scott's. He is a Monte Pythonesque coiner of clichés: rubies have a fearless tendency to "glow like live coals," and Frenchmen sputter expletives like "Name of a name!" and "By example!" Yet in the next sentence Sabatini can turn a flashing phrase (a eunuch's hands are two "bunches of fat fingers...
Grumbling all the way, gargling his booze, Matthau is better than he has been in years, and all the kids are wonderful, full of spirit and spunk. (Inquires one fearless sad sack of a combative rival: "How'd you like me to stick that bat where the sun never shines?") The movie has some very traditional concerns-about the value of playing as opposed to winning, about trying to achieve a certain minimal dignity-but deals with them lightly and with charm...
...scale. Or that at the very end of "3/4 Time" Buffett does a 6-minute monologue called "God's Own Drunk," wherein the hero is guarding a still, gets overcome by temptation, takes a few slashes, commences to get hot flashes, metamorphoses into God's Own Drunk and a fearless man, then sees "The Bear...a Kodiak-looking feller, bout 19 feet tall," who rambles over and "looks me in the eyes, and mine were a lot redder than his. It hung him up." It's not enough because the spell is shattered--Buffett succumbed just once...
Question: When does a college hockey arena become a snakepit into which only the most fearless of foes may travel on penalty of death should they emerge with a victory over the heavily-supported home team...
When so many talented, well-intentioned people are chronically lonely and confused--or stridently busy and heartless about it--there have to be reasons. There have to be reasons for the scarcity of teachers who are fearless, comradely, and fun-loving, or for the fact that so many of us move through a day unattuned to friendship, unwilling or unable to take time with one another in unspoken things...