Word: languidness
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...then has re-echoed the barking of that pistol. So too has nearly everything in the cinema. No exception is this story of an immigrant who, unjustly imprisoned, is released only to find that his son has been overwhelmed in the big noise of 1914-18. Rudolph Schildkraut is languid as the immigrant. This is one of two pictures in which able Louise Dresser gives simultaneous, current Manhattan performances...
...talking about their jobs and their women, or pictured in their drinking or drunken moments. Of the reporters, Hugh O'Connell, who carried the green and flabby reporter's bible across the stage in The Racket does the best drinking while John Cromwell hands in a properly languid sketch of the cheerless, sardonic Wick Snell, who knows his business well enough to have an even more thorough detestation of the activities it reports. There was observed also in the play a crumpled fellow, who, on the occasions when he turned his front to the audience, generally...
...sake, but as it will be useful in making a practical man: thus rhetoric is cultivated, as each may be called upon to speak in the course of his life. ...Mathematics and sciences are pursued because they correspond to the utilitarian character of the country. ...The studies are as languid as in England, and the discipline as loose as in Germany...
...Heathsville, Va., a strange disease seized hold of all the cats. Felines frolicking in cellars or licking their paws upon doorsteps would suddenly become languid with fever and then, in a short space, perish. What the scurf was, if, indeed, it had a name, no one knew; they knew only that when it attacked a cat, there was no hope left for the beast's life; that it had already attacked and killed most of Heathsville cats; that a year ago, all the rabbits in the vicinity of Heathsville had likewise perished of a mysterious plague...
...also her child. It is carefully explained that save for these two slips the lady has been strictly moral, and the purpose of the play is to decide which of these two lovers she shall marry. This decision is reached after three acts of light but languid conversation. Too bad it is the play lags, for the performance is immensely satisfactory. Resplendent in hoops and ruffles, Billie Burke returns to the theatre for the title part. Her acting is eventful, feathery and fine. Reginald Owen and Arthur Byron revel in epigram and rages as the suitors; while one Madge Evans...