Word: gracelessly
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...point where one should cease mincing words in the alas so frequently graceless minuendo of academic debate, and say simply and brutally, this stinks? Barrington Moore, Jr., Lecturer on Sociology
Taking off almost as much paint as he put on, Hofmann managed to achieve the magic he wanted. What could have been static and graceless chunks gradually assume life, like slow-motion dancers in a solemn ballet...
...begin with, a body long since unaccustomed to physical joy, a set of false teeth, and Mrs. Henderson, who still thinks that he is her husband but insane. As Roger's end shows. Author Glaskin's powers of invention are unfortunately limited and his writing is graceless. What recommends the book is chiefly its intriguing central idea, which suggests a hitherto untold Tale of Hoffmann as it might have been rendered by Thorne Smith...
...Clarissa and the gothic novel of crumbling castles and mental phantoms invented by Horace Walpole (The Castle of Otranto). Eventually housewives and what Hawthorne called "female scribblers" took over the sentimental novel; as a romantic fantasy it has paced U.S. bestseller lists ever since. When Charles Brockden Brown, a graceless but serious 18th century writer, replaced Italian ruins with the American wilderness and aristocratic doom with Indian gore-in such novels as Edgar Huntly-the gothic novel became the favored mode of major U.S. novelists from Melville to Faulkner...
These worthies are under the direction of Mr. Kilty, who has deployed them with considerable skill on a graceless set by William D. Roberts. The hell scene in the Kilty production drags a bit, as it never does in the considerably-longer recorded version; probably it simply needs greater virtuosity than this cast could bring to it. Mr. Kilty does not take the play as seriously as he might, and the result is a rather superficial performance. But it is done with flamboyance and zest, and if the result is far from definitive, it is still delightful...