Word: gallicisms
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...likable middle-aged Frenchman, the exiled professor Albert Salsette. He gets to Manhattan in the spring of 1941, and his old friend Jules Remains shows him around. They see little of that world outside Greater New York. But as far as they go, their sharp eyes, fresh minds and Gallic talent for analysis and for phrase contrive a keenly agreeable pair of new spectacles for the over-habituated native...
...back again. "Claudine," presented by the French Foreign Films Committee, is well worth sitting through the travelogue which precedes it. The French have a reputation for putting out very good or very bad pictures, and this one has the traditional simplicity and down-to-earth quality that characterizes the Gallic touch at its best...
Saint-Exupéry's work seems to come from the center of great and steely pressures, at the intersection of scientific and poetic knowledge. Sometimes the pressure is too intense, producing mere conceits or wild generalizations. But usually he holds his stratospheric insights under complete and Gallic intellectual control. His perceptions are so sharp and deep, his language so pure, that most of Flight to Arras radiates poetry and a renewal of truth...
...rilly and upbraiding the quality of the bread. With Teutonic thoroughness, statisticians laboriously calculated that Cérilly had celebrated so many funerals that virtually every living soul in the village should be dead by now. Revealed at last was M. Guichard's sly scheme which had truly Gallic wit and practicality...
...State Department trembled last week for fear that the still great fleet of Vichyfrance would be handed over to the Axis. And all its fears were occasioned because a handful of Frenchmen who despise Vichy and all its works had landed in very Gallic fashion on the little American islands, St. Pierre & Miquelon...