Word: maladroitness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stance of the U.S. in world affairs merely that of preserver of the status quo? Is U.S. foreign policy enmeshed in illusion, maladroit in method and impotent to achieve its stated ends...
...other Vanbrughs had their troubles with women, too. Francis Vanbrugh (born 1772) was a frail and handsome man given to fainting fits, who spent ten long years being hopelessly in love with the proud Duchess of Avalon. When she finally capitulated and came to his room, Francis, "maladroit as ever," took the occasion to die. Then there was Thomas Vanbrugh (born 1861), a captain in Prince Albert's Regiment of Assam Light Infantry in India, who gallantly disgraced himself during a native uprising when he ordered a retreat solely to save the local British Resident's wife...
Echoes & Repercussions. Because of the worldwide repercussions, both President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles took pains to explain that there had been no change in policy. At that, some of the press compounded the press's fault by blaming it all on Dulles (he was "maladroit," tch-tched the Times), and charging that he was backing away from his press-conference position...
...Agrippine que la mort de Britannicus." C'est aussi l'histoire de la naissance du monstre Neron dont on ne connait pas la nature quand le rideau se leve. Tandis que Neron decouvre son genie, la tragedie est rendue sensible par le conflit des gouverneurs, Burrhus, soldat honnete si maladroit, et Narcisse, anguille glissante...
...proving that a movie-director hero is not "a common, on-the-make hustler," but an idealist and an artist. For my money, he's still a common, on-the-make hustler, loaded with moral earnestness in an attempt to season a piece of high-quality hackwork with maladroit and dubious "social comment." (This pseudo-moralism is the second-worst vice of the commercial theatre, right after the sleazy sentimentality in which Goldilocks also abounds...