Word: keening
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Because of the force of De Gaulle's imposing personality and keen insight, France came to wield disproportionate power (in 1959. it had a medium-size population of 47 million and a G.N.P. of $48.6 billion). He recognized earlier than most that the nuclear standoff between the U.S. and Russia afforded other countries considerable room for maneuver. While enjoying the protection of the U.S. nuclear umbrella, he attacked American economic penetration of Europe, and unsuccessfully sought to undermine American business expansion by trying to persuade other countries to reject the dollar in favor of a return to the gold...
Present deponent will testify no further as to the plot. To say more would be a crime against pleasure and surprise. Among its bonuses, Sleuth is a consummate spoof of thrillers, as keen in satire as suspense. The evening moves from something like the erudite nonchalance of S.S. Van Dine to the venomous gaiety of the "get-the-guests" sequence in Virginia Woolf. In the key roles, Quayle and Baxter are lithe and lethal...
...Chileans have a keen pragmatism, as shown by your story. A while back, a conservative Chilean cousin of mine was visiting in the U.S. His name: Guevara. When I asked him if we were related to "Che," he smiled slyly and quipped, "Aquí no; en Cuba...
...makings of a formidable playwright. His best dialogue is equal to Pinter's, and he can match Beckett when it comes to peering into the abyss of existence. While not as fine a playwright as either, he has something that the two greater dramatists lack: a keen sense of man as a social being...
...real-life world of the blue collar worker is one of not quite making it, and a keen sense of diminished status. Some of it is portrayed, in crude and exaggerated form, in the much-acclaimed movie Joe. Certainly not all workers are as bigoted as Joe Curran, though his counterpart can be found on any picket line or at the wheel of many a New York City taxi. But his pleasures are real enough?whisky, the bowling alley, a gun collection?and so are his yearnings for a taste of life on the other side of the middle-class...