Word: horridness
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PoHyanna. Walt Disney's best live-actor movie to date sticks to the original lachrymose plot like warm icing to a sugar bun, tells the simpering story of the horrid little prig (intelligently acted by 13-year-old Hayley Mills) whose armor of cheerfulness and joy remains impenetrable to the sniffly...
Pollyanna. Walt Disney's best live-actor movie to date sticks to the original tear-jerking plot like icing to a sugar bun, tells the simpering story of the horrid little prig (intelligently acted by 13-year-old Hayley Mills) whose armor of cheerfulness and joy remains impenetrable to the bitter...
...muggers now in the movies. But chief credit for the film's success belongs to 13-year-old Hayley Mills, the youngest member of what may at the moment be the most successful family in show business.* With her grace, intelligence and unstagy freshness, she has made the horrid little prig she plays seem almost as nice as the authoress intended...
...Schwarz borrows his technique from Durer's enamel engravings, but the daring placement of the shrew, the uncanny emphasis on its very white eye belongs to the modern period. Without losing its descriptive accuracy, The Shrew is designed as a harrowing picture; the animal shown is an image of horrid, unfathomable evil...
...slip of a girl wearing a red helmet and red sweater. She was instructed to break both of Moss's collarbones to help narrow the width of his shoulders and perhaps free him. But before she could enter the shaft, the trapped man had died. "It was a horrid moment," said Flight Lieut. Carter. "There was no sound as I hung my head down the shaft, and I knew he was gone at last...