Word: gracelessness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This time Father Claude Rains is a sort of early-bird Enoch Arden, vagabonding back to mother and the girls after 20 years of French leave just as mother is fixing to marry again. This time John Garfield is an incredibly graceless, beachcombing wise guy, a rhinestone in the rough with some strange romantic glitter for Priscilla. This time mother and the girls all get what is best for them, and nobody suffers more than a bad case of sniffles. Next time, the four daughters will return in something called Four Wives...
Most readers will find The Minstrel Boy the more balanced, more understanding account. As Author Strong points out: if Moore sought preferment wherever he could get it, consorted with the lords and ladies, whose power his poetry was attacking, that was no more than the gracefully graceless way of the times he lived in. If he ran from the battles he fomented, that was because he was a poet, not a man of action. And if his poetry "glows at no great heat," seems largely facile and sentimental now, it had a quality, incommunicable to present ears, which made...
...move gracefully, by means of what she called "functional exercises," he summoned her to do the same for his court. Cried the Kaiser: "They are the most awkward women in the world. One never sees women at the courts of London, St. Petersburg or Rome stand about in the graceless attitudes I see at mine...
...American movie, but usual in a French, each character is an individual. The expressive nuances of gesture and intonation, which distinguish French acting, are in delightful abundance. Jeanne Cheirel, a French Alison Skipworth, is gruffly ingratiating as the Duchesse de Treville; Vanda Greville, without being obvious, is uproariously graceless as the English girl, and Jeanne Tissier, playing the lionized love-lecturer, creates a subtle balance between timidity and conceit. All the players live their parts, and are doubly humorous in being unconscious of their humor...
Typical of the years just before the Revolution is the long roof-topping balustrade seen in both old points. In both the cupolo seems especially spindly and graceless. It shown has too few accents of gables and portals to enliven its front, Columbia has too many where Browns middle is marked by an exaggerated Princeton, Columbia, lacking it, is without a unifying center of interest...