Word: grandeur
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rome with a U.S.O. troupe, had an audience with Pope Pius XII and reported, wide-eyed, that the Pontiff had asked if he was a tenor or baritone. Said The Voice: "I was amazed the Pope had heard of me. I was speechless. I am enthralled by all the grandeur. I am thrilled...
...French were feeling hurt, angry, resentful, frustrated, defensive, defense less, irritable, bellicose, mean, tearful and lonely. Above all. lonely. General Charles de Gaulle, who had played the politics of grandeur with a high hand, had got his fingers pinched in Syria. Hungry for glory, the French had been happy when he signed the French-Russian pact and took his own good time about an Anglo-French agreement. They tightened their belts over their pinched bellies and felt like men again. Now they had no glory, no food and, they felt, no friends...
...carnal, devout, intense Dean of St. Paul's. Of Death-whether in his famous "For-whom-the-bell-tolls" sermon, or in many poems of which this one (reprinted from Reader's Companion, edited by Louis Kronenberger-Viking, $2) is a-distinguished example-he wrote with solemn grandeur, and a consoling lack of fear...
Renaissance faces of children and infants, their features luminous with hunger and portentous of the incalculable future, this record achieves pure tragic grandeur...
...find each other if they did, or to run into quite so picturesque a combination of gruffly kind metropolitan types. The trouble is more detailed than that. The pretty-enough "background music" (one of Hollywood's worst habits) reduces some of the storytelling from the sadly tender grandeur which the players and the monumental closeups earn to a sort of oversweetened, high-grade M. G. Mush...