Word: housebrokenness
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...coat-in some species his hide is so loose that it hangs down in folds and even spreads out on the ground around him. He is almost as tractable as a dog, certainly more ingenious and inventive. He is violently affectionate, independent, mischievous, curious-and naturally housebroken...
Angry Old Man. King is a superior monologuist, even though his prose is not housebroken and some of his stories seem to have filtered through sewer pipes. In style and substance, he is a throwback to the iconoclastic '20s, one of the last of the angry old men who picked up the idol-smashing habit from H. L. Mencken...
...heartwarming display of courage in the face of almost insurmountable odds, an inspiration to every "housebroken," intimidated victim of bureaucracy's unbending and arrogant illogic: for Woman of the Year, who else but Margaret Ann Lockwood...
...clearly Christ in the Garden of Gethsemane (see cut). Scores of old masters have given the scene more spiritual impact, yet few have conceived it any more compactly and dramatically than Burra has. As always with Burra, evil ruled the conception. But this time the evil was not the housebroken monster of a man fascinated by undigested fears. Burra's Gethsemane faced the onrushing moment of one of history's greatest-though necessary-evils from a very great distance, and showed it plain...
...Bechtel operates. Though he rose from the shovel, he is no horny-handed son of toil. Always immaculately tailored, Steve Bechtel is as much at home over the negotiating table or in one of his many clubs as he is on a construction site. Says one acquaintance: "Steve has housebroken the construction business...