Word: gruffness
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What apparently prompted the remake was a close resemblance between the leading character-a bigshot gangster trying to behave like a gentleman-and the proven specialty of new Star Paul Douglas, who has clicked with audiences as a gruff, goldhearted mug. But this time Actor Douglas is forced to push his appeal close to the point of diminishing returns...
...first Don last February, some missed Pinza's dash and derring-do; instead, Schoeffler gave them suavity and elegance. They also missed the ringing excitement of Pinza's voice. Schoeffler's lower voice seemed slightly gruff; but he covered the range with sureness and in finished style. He was impressive as Jokanaan in Salome, and critics crowed over his performance as, Hans Sachs in Die Meistersinger...
...rest is due to the characters themselves: an abject Dutch artist who loses his wife to the painter, a Tahitian woman who looks for another wife for that painter, and the native girl who becomes the wife; they are all convincing. George Sanders and Herbert Marshall are respectively gruff and concerned as artist and artist's friend...
...guard of honor of ten U.S., ten British, ten French soldiers snapped to attention for the Germans. Waiting in a drawing room were the high commissioners: the U.S.'s cagey, hard-driving John J. McCloy, France's scholarly, elegant André Francois-Poncet, Britain's shy, gruff General Sir Brian Robertson. Facing the commissioners across a red carpet, Adenauer announced formally that he had formed his government. In a brief speech he paid tribute to the Allies' help to Germany, expressed the hope that Germany would soon get greater autonomy...
Negligible Bit. The hardest wallops came in the Sunday Times from a critic Britons have heard for 45 years. Gruff old (80) Ernest Newman first wanted to know "What is a festival's work?" Is its virtue, he asked, "a quality inherent in it" or does its virtue come "merely from the fact that on a particular day [a piece] is performed some hundreds of miles from where we live...