Word: gazing
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seemed oddly quiet, and when Roxanna brought Felicity her evening glass of warm milk, she thought the Viscountess lay next to her husband as if she was lying beside him in a tomb. Roxanna knew she should not have these thoughts, just as she knew she must keep her gaze downcast each evening as she slipped quietly in and out of the Viscountess’ room. She was careful not to look at Viscount Frederick, as he slumped there on the pillows next to his wife. But she couldn’t help but wonder why Frederick, so studious...
...another seminal essay, the 1962 "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art," he focused his laser gaze on the new arthouse high priests, Francois Truffaut and Michelangelo Antonioni, finding them - and, by extension, their American admirers - guilty of a new version of Manny's original sin: "filling every pore of a work with darting Style and creative Vivacity." (Oh, the castrating sarcasm of the upper-case S and V.) He defined the first part of his dialectic as "Masterpiece art, reminiscent of the enameled tobacco humidors and wooden lawn ponies bought at white elephant auctions decades ago..." What he wanted...
...challenge, I think, for the next President is to harness the essential idealism of the American people, the essential optimism of the American people, to inspire people to try to do better in the world, but to do so with a clear-eyed gaze, to understand that these things are not going to be easy. That there are fights that are going to have to be fought. And that at the end of the conversation, there are still going to be disagreements. And I intend to be on the winning side and have more power than the other side...
...were standing in the living room, and I looked at the shelves full of foreign editions of The Gulag Archipelago and at the writer with the biblical beard and piercing gaze and thought perhaps I should consider studying Russian...
...good adventure epic, with all the Chinese people, and a wan one, with O'Connells and the other the Westerners. Their character motivation is sketchy, their verbal wit scant; at times a scene revs to its climax and, instead of issuing some clever deflating retort, the actor will gaze dumbly into the camera, as if this were a rough cut, with the punch line to be edited in later. To camouflage the dearth of smart dialogue, Fraser and Bello indulge in sheepish smiling and sweet preening; the film's working title might have been Indiana's Clones and the Dimple...