Word: flickerings
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Newsmen pelted Mr. Brothers with questions which he ignored. His smoky blue eyes stared at them disdainfully. On his rather good-looking face-a face resembling James Joseph Tunney-was no flicker of emotion. But Chief Roche was amply voluble about Mr. Brothers. Said he: "The toughest man I ever encountered! I don't believe he has a nerve in his body. If he didn't kill Lingle, then Lingle is still alive today...
...film ad absurdem--and his just as charming tenderness--which the reviewer doesn't believe in anyway-- wins him (Maurice) an American Heiross which makes a very long sentence. Father of heiress objects to foreign influence, but being a clever old cadger, brings Maurice of America so he may flicker in contrast with the go-getters of this country. Maurice, of course, becomes an outstanding success in the world of finance, makes speeches at banquets, gives sales-talks, and does everything to lose the girl, who fell in love with him only because he was different. But all you need...
...players felt this coolness, and took their own time about setting in motion the action of the play. Only at one other time, during the period of mutual misunderstandings, accusations, and challenges, and the final slow denouement of Act V, did the swift flame of the action flicker a little; and the blame for this lapse can as well be laid at the door of the playwright Will Shakespeare, as it can upon the actors. During most of the three hours, the drama flowed forward quickly; here, the little complications of plot caused greater haste, there the "merry...
...first I thought it was a toy. Then, too late, I saw that it was the medium of a new art. For by that time it had become merely a new racket for the pants-makers, and millions of minds were being trivialized and anaesthetized by that endless flicker of falseness and venality. How much of my work was actually applied to the service of a sane humanity? How much of it was cheapened and perverted by the greed of men, the mechanical greed of money to make more money? My work was honest work. I never cared for money?...
...unresponsive to sights and sounds. Dr. Francis Randall Hagnar, his physician, assured newsmen that Mr. Taft was in no pain. Helped out of the railroad car by four attendants, the sick man was placed in a rolling chair, too small for him. The onetime Chief Justice showed a faint flicker of a smile. News cameramen pressed rudely about him, exploded their flashlights before his unseeing eyes...