Word: graceless
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present and a Bitos, fuddled with drink, being prepared for one last humiliation. A woman who has refused Bitos' offer of marriage pities him enough to warn him to leave the house before the final indignity. Without a word of gratitude, Bitos turns on his heel with graceless implacability ("If I can ever get my own back on you all one day, you are the one I shall begin with"). This is Anouilh at his most psychologically astute, recognizing that a man may endure all sorts of barbs aimed at his social class or ideological allegiance, but that...
...English parents who was born and grows up in a British colony in Africa. Her name, Martha Quest, is recognized first as lame symbolism and then as intentional irony. Martha is not questing for anything. Her father is an unsuccessful farmer and a passionate hypochondriac her mother is a graceless worshipper of convention...
...conflict between reason-determined morals (man-centered) and faith-determined morals (God-centered)." Not surprisingly, faith triumphs over reason by subsuming it. In man, faith is prior to reason, Tillich says. It follows that Tillich can dispose of the two major types of reason-determined morals. First, there is "graceless formalism," which is compulsive adherence to religious doctrine. Like Luther, Tillich feels that formal laws separate man from...
...minute. Junior forwards Randy Cross and Sheridan James were deadly marksmen from the outside and kangaroos under the boards. Guard Ken Leary, (5 ft. 7 in.), thought he was Bob Cousy--and could do almost anything with a basketball. Dick Moreshead (6 ft. 9 in.) was graceless--but Brobdingnagian...
...merest fault darkens his day. Rehearsing with Joan Sutherland, he could notice nothing but the graceless clumber of La Stupendas feet. The curtain bothered him when the orchestra was at its best; the lights annoyed him when the set was perfect; poor acting upset him when the singing was glorious. With a board of directors that applauds him with rubber-stamp approval, an audience that regularly fills every seat, and a local gentry that promises in advance to make up the final deficit in his budget, San Francisco Opera Director Kurt Herbert Adler remains on the critical list...