Word: gruffness
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...expert acting crew unties Knot's knots, with 83-year-old Ethel Grimes in gruff comic command as the family doctor, and James Donald convincingly torn between love, money, and the family crest. Murder will out, of course, and it does with an explosively surprising last-curtain bang-of laughter...
Paul Sparer is a stuffed-shirt Ulysses who delivers his two lengthy disquisitions on degree and on time with imposing sonority. During the first, the satirical touch comes when Patrick Hines' gruff Agamemnon clearly doesn't suffer garrulity gladly and impatiently drums his fingers on the table...
...months. The mission that cannot be pulled off is the spiking of two enormous German guns before a lost British battalion can be evacuated from an Aegean island. The man who can pull it off is Gregory Peck. "Why me?" asks Peck, his deer's eyes regarding his gruff, lovable old commander (James Robertson Justice) with reproach. "Well," the G.L.O.C. answers reasonably, "you speak German like a German, Greek like a Greek, and before the war you were the greatest mountain climber in the world...
...flight; this time they were fired for practice. Then the retro package was jettisoned. Preparing for descent, Shepard reported that his periscope had retracted. As the capsule plunged downward into the atmosphere, and the Gs of deceleration climbed toward a punishing 10, the astronaut's voice grew gruff as he strained to make his breath behave. Then the capsule slowed; his words were distinct again...
...automatic elevator stops with a jolt. The doors slide open, but instead of the accustomed exit, the passenger faces only a blank wall. His fingers stab at buttons: nothing happens. Finally, he presses the alarm signal, and a starter's gruff voice inquires from below: "What's the matter?" The passenger explains that he wants to get off on the 25th floor. "There is no 25th floor in this building," comes the voice over the loudspeaker. The passenger explains that, nonsense, he has worked here for years. He gives his name. "Never heard of you," says the loudspeaker. "Easy...