Word: gooey
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...film and glued onto it a cloying narration and a sound track that often seems loudly superfluous. Even as the lemmings plunge crazily toward the ocean-a sight that needs no gratuitous comment of any sort-the orchestra swells to bursting and the voice of the narrator booms their gooey epitaph: "And so is acted out the legend of mass suicide . . . It is not given to man to understand all of nature's mysteries...
...affectionate welcome, some of the press ranged from gooey valentines to hearty backslaps that gave the Cornwallis ritual at least the virtue of dignity. The Louisville Courier-Journal gushed that Elizabeth looked like an English rose "with a little of the morning dew still on the petals." Perhaps the deepest curtsy came from the Philadelphia Inquirer, whose greeting used "Her Majesty" seven times and "the Queen" only twice−a ratio of respect unmatched by the London Times itself. Long Island's Newsday burbled: WE LOVE THE QUEEN...
Perfume of Sanctity. Least flattering of all is the portrait Cozzens draws of Marjorie Penrose's proselytizing Roman Catholic friend, Mrs. Pratt. Mrs. Pratt has a sweet tooth for vicarious sins, and she loves the gooey drippings of intimate confidences from flesh-bedeviled souls like Marjorie. About her person she dabs the odor of sanctity as if it were the latest Parisian perfume. But as she prattles of sin and piety in the quiet of Arthur Winner's garden, her innuendoes loose the first of the novel's rockslides of revelation. On the very...
...reported French Ethnologist Jehan Vellard, who has watched the process in Brazil's Mato Grosso, and now works in Peru. The essential components are dissolved out of the roots or stalks with cold or tepid water, and the solution is concentrated by heating. The finished product is a gooey paste. Natives have no fear of inhaling its vapors or of putting their hands in it, and they judge its strength by the bitterness of a drop, which they nonchalantly taste...
...married roomate's security alternates with his pity of the trapped spouse. Pope manages to give his story a pervading atmosphere of pregnancy, domesticity, and security. Unfortunately, however, this profusion of warmth carries over a little too much into the narrator's thoughts--he, in short, becomes rather gooey. One cannot criticize Pope for not conforming in an age of understatement, but it seems that his story might have been more effective if, especially in the first part, he had toned down his narrator's agitation just...