Word: flawlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Watson jumped up, hurried across the room with hand outstretched. Said he, in flawless French: "I do hope the Senator speaks French, because the President speaks little Spanish...
...Peck was born in Tientsin, has spent 35 years in the foreign service, 31 of them in China. He speaks Chinese, in all its intricate, singsong dialects, like a native scholar, and has been known to spin entrancing Chinese narratives of his own invention by the hour, in fluent, flawless Mandarin...
...lunch hour in Manhattan and all over the city waiters with flawless manners were getting orders wrong and with many an expert nourish placing the scrambled eggs before the man who ordered stuffed veal. Suddenly 40 immigration officials, 40 Canadian border patrolmen and 100 city detectives sprang from nowhere, seized 70 Italian waiters, and spread consternation through the $2-luncheon belt...
...Director Lubitsch manages to keep some fun in such an antique problem is still his own secret. There is his flawless sense of timing accentuated by his tricks with the Mickey Mouse technique of scoring. There is his poker-faced observation of the ridiculous. And there is his Svengalish knack of urging the utmost from his actors. For the first time in his movie career, Burgess Meredith is sufficiently subdued to be a funny comedian. For an advanced course in the sort of fluff & nonsense which has been the Lubitsch trademark, That Uncertain Feeling is a prerequisite...
...promise they found in him. Through all of them he has remained the same: a man of slow gestures, always digging his hands in his pockets or twisting and turning awkwardly, as if he had caught his arms in the lining of his coat sleeves, while he expresses flawless liberal sentiments in a slow, pained voice. His friends marvel at Ambassador Winant's dress, wonder how he manages to keep his trousers so impressed, where he finds so many pale blue shirts with frayed cuffs and collars...