Word: gloom
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Director Mark Robson's accent on gloom, the script's blurry counterfeit of the novel's hero and Actor Granger's lack of depth and force all combine to produce an effect which is neither dramatic nor provocative, but merely overpoweringly monotonous...
...week (some $5,000 less than the average half-hour TV network drama show), McCleery solved the problem of sets by not having any. "If we need a wall, we just let the absence of light stand for a wall," he explains. In the resulting gloom, his cameramen have been known to crawl around on hands and knees, with matches or flashlights, to find their camera positions. But, though the staging may be dark, the actors are highlighted. "I'm trying to paint pictures with faces," says McCleery. "You can only do it by getting so close that...
Glory in the Gloom. Yet John was no truckling politico. When he thought that the partisans were at fault in the Boston Massacre and that the accused British soldiery would not get a proper defense, he fearlessly risked his life and career to defend them against the charge of murdering five colonists in cold blood. By hard lawyer logic Adams forced the jury to acquit all except two, who were found guilty of manslaughter. Meanwhile, despite the side he had taken in the case, his townsmen elected him as representative to the legislature, even though he did not bother...
...well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure it will cost Us to maintain this Declaration," he said in 1776. "Yet through all the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will triumph in that Days Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which," added John very sensibly, "I trust in God We shall...
...Over there" was the grey, stone-walled New York Stock Exchange. Inside, on the crowded trading floor, there was no gloom, only pent-up excitement. The huge cavern buzzed with talk of General Motors' new five-year contract with the C.I.O.'s United Auto Workers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). The pact had been announced the day before, after the market closed, and traders now wondered how this testimonial to continued prosperity would affect the market...