Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Tadhg Sweeney was moved to an interior line position late in the campaign, a grim, unspoken battle took place in each game. The rugged Sweeney's stock in trade was charging the goalie--a perfectly legal maneuver, as long as the netminder does not have control of the ball. For a while in each first period, it was a question of whether the enemy goalie was going to yield to Sweeney's insistent pounding or play a charging game. In both the Brown and Yale contests, the goalie chose to hang back; each time, this was a vitally important...
...Mansion, by William Faulkner. The final installment of a wild, grim-comic trilogy (its predecessors: The Hamlet, The Town), in which Flem, the worst of the Snopeses, gets his due in death...
While the rally and flares were pre-arranged, the team showed an encouraging spontaneous spark in its last appearance on home grounds. Grim determination seemed to characterize both the squad and the coach as they went through their rugged, routine Thursday drills in near-freezing weather...
...then murmur into microphones which they hold before them. At the front of the room, tape recorders whirl; an instructor watches them and occasionally twists dials to discover how his proteges are fairing in their strange new world of a foreign tongue. The entire scene contrasts with the grim, grey exterior of the building; the lab itself is bright, cheering, and more like 1984 than 1859. And, at last, language teaching at the College has caught up with the twentieth century...
...orchestral accompaniment had its exciting moments, especially as in the extended tutti passages, but it was not an altogether easy collaboration. There had obviously not been enough time to become sure about catching the end of the solo runs, with the result that the last movement sounded grim and dogged and too tense. With regard to the difficult dynamic problems of the slow movement, it is often the case that a relaxed, controlled mezzo-piano will actually sound quieter than the strained tone the full orchestra produced when trying to match the soloist's softest passages. The orchestra fared better...