Word: flawlessness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This scene itself also improves on Shakespeare. His Frenchmen, the night before their expected triumph, were shallow, frivolous and arrogant. By editing out a good deal of their foolishness, by flawless casting, directing and playing, and by a wonderfully paced appreciation of the dead hours of rural night, Olivier transforms the French into sleepy, overconfident, highly intelligent, highly sophisticated noblemen, subtly disunified, casually contemptuous of their Dauphin -an all but definitive embodiment of a civilization a little too ripe to survive...
...Tongues. St. Laurent was born 63 years ago at Compton, Quebec, near the Vermont border. He is a polished, flawless bilinguist by inheritance: his father was a French Canadian merchant, his mother a first generation Irish Canadian. ("I didn't know at first there were two languages in Canada. I just thought there was one way to talk to my father and another way to talk to my mother...
...this Great Adventure is the soul of Logan Pearsall Smith viewed under the aspect of eternity. Author Smith, ex-Quaker, ex-American, is one of the few contemporary writers of English prose who can afford to be so viewed. For if stylistic perfection, embalming a wry wit and a flawless sense of human folly, has any preservative powers, the four slender volumes* gathered into this brief (197-page) book have a better chance than most contemporary writing to survive the impartial ages...
Despite an almost flawless performance by Actor Cummings and the stylishly bedizened beauty of Newcomer Lizabeth Scott, all this tragic extra footage seems mainly designed to display the virtuosity of Producer Hal Wallis' latest entry in the screen glamor sweepstakes...
...second time in a row, the Stahlmen turned in a flawless performance in the field, highlighted in the sixth when Forte speared a hard drive to right and prevented a run from crossing the plate...