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Word: fleshed (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that matter, Sidney Poitier's Porgy is not the dirty, ragtag beggar of the Heyward script, but a well-scrubbed young romantic hero who is never seen taking a penny from anybody. And Dorothy Dandridge, who emphasizes the elegance of her bones more than the sins of the flesh, makes something of a nice Nellie out of bad Bess...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jul. 6, 1959 | 7/6/1959 | See Source »

...Strict Observance (Trappists) at Valley Falls, R.I. The good fathers viewed the novice with some alarm. The boy already stood 6 ft. tall, weighed close to 200 Ibs., and the way he piled through a plate of turnips suggested strongly that he was riot meant to mortify the flesh. After two years the abbot gently told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A Superior Sort of Liar | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...uneven work; it shows Shakespeare at his strongest and at his weakest. The basic story deals with jealousy-inspired treachery--a serious theme the playwright would later return to in Othello and Cymbeline. But at this time, Shakespeare was just casting about for a convenient skeleton to flesh. The whole business of the tragic slandering and the ensuing deception he took from older sources, and clearly wasted little effort on; his treatment of them is decidedly thin. The greatness of the play lies in what Shakespeare himself invented: the dazzing comedy of Beatrice and Benedick, who "never meet but there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Much Ado About Nothing | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

...Below are four very brief, rough statements of various attitudes toward "the person of Christ"; check the one that most nearly approximates your own view: 88 Christ should be regarded as divine: that is, the Word made Flesh, the absolutely unique incarnation of the Godhead. 58 Christ should be regarded as divine that is, the Word made Flesh, the absolutely unique incarnation of the Godhead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Text of the Questionnaire | 6/11/1959 | See Source »

...mother prostrated, her brother a musclebound failure in business, and her father writing gamely: "You have to have faith in your children like in a Business or any serious undertaking and there is nothing that is so bad that we can't forgive especially when Our own flesh and blood is involved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: If I Forget Thee .. . | 5/11/1959 | See Source »

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