Word: inertly
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...glossy wood furniture. Nakashima involves himself totally, from the selection and first rough cutting of the logs to the final caress of the sandpaper. "There are a thousand intricacies and a thousand decisions," he says. "An old tree is unpredictable. It is a stirring moment when out of an inert mass drawn from nature, we set out to produce an object never before seen, an object that is useful, but with a lyric quality...
...prove that they can develop acceptable. If not quite plausible characters ex nihilo. It is a shame that actors like Katherine Hepburn and Henry Fonda should get saddled with parts like these. That they carry it off and breathe a little life into what might other wise be an inert pile of celluloid only suggests that their lustrous reputations are well-deserved Perhaps I am the sucker the real sentimentalist for letting those two familiar septuagenarian faces get to me. But it seems, simply, that here are two people who can act and act well, even if the roles...
...Sigmund Freud, his apostles and apostates jumped down the rabbit hole of the unconscious, they found a world that had as much to do with myth, religion and art as it did with science. Psychoanalysis is hardly an objective discipline. Physical scientists must cope with the fact that even inert nature can be altered by the act of observation. The assumption that one active mind can know another is staggering in its implications-like playing three-dimensional chess in a maze of mirrors...
...singing, all dancing." The show's 30 members are almost always in view and forever on the move: prowling through the junk, licking themselves and leapfrogging one another, prancing down the aisles. Compared with these athletic toms and tabbies, the companies of most Broadway musicals seem positively inert...
Glenda Jackson is a buzz saw of an actress and Rose is a toothpick of a play. This sense of imbalance sets the tone of the evening. Jackson possesses a feral magnetism; the play is nerveless, somnolent, inert. She is direct; the play is diffuse. In vocal inflection and delivery, she is a wicked font of wit and irony; the play is parched for either...