Word: insisting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meaning has become so obvious as to be both platitudinous and commonplace. The stuff of tragedy is rapidly becoming as easy to swallow as water. And even though it might look like gin to the public, no discerning critic can get drunk on water. Anderson et ilk seem to insist on taking the short cut to universality, and it invariably leads them to brutality...
Most charming of the picture's attributes is its tendency to abandon the usual Hollywood baby talk for normal adult conversation, achieving striking success in its seemingly minor-key moments. The characters do not insist on mouthing Shakespearian lines at every turn, and when they do, it stands out in obvious and unsatisfactory contrast. Scattered complaints that the film is "mushy" can be upheld by pointing to those less likeable sections where the actors attend to the business of acting, but those condemnations are completely subordinated by the picture's masterful, off-guard body...
...harm a nursing mother if the mother smoked before her child was born, because 1) the baby apparently cannot get enough nicotine that way to hurt him, 2) before he is born he develops a tolerance for nicotine from the nicotine in his mother's blood. The doctors insist their findings are no argument for prospective mothers to take up smoking...
...Edward Mikrut 2G.B. have no doubts but that their polished campaign will be successful, but admit a serious handicap in that their drive has no such euphonious name as the "Lowell Mole Patrol." "But Prune Face is the most sensational character since the Mile was put away," they insist. They best they've thought of is "Make a Plum of Prune Face." In any case, they think they've found the golden apple, and Dick Tracy will make everything peachy...
...week was a statement he issued after the bombing of Munich on Sept. 19. In it the uncowed Cardinal declared that, despite Nazi propaganda that the victims of the air raid were buried without crosses, he personally had erected crosses over the graves. He urged all Roman Catholics to insist upon the "unassailable personal right of burial under the cross." Of the bombing itself, Cardinal von Faulhaber said: "What happened eight days ago over Munich was the prelude to the Last Judgment...