Word: maligned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Anouilh pursues his characters with mockery that is a little wistful, with sympathy that is a little malign, now capriciously making romance look grey, now perversely making reality seem gilded. At the end he casually mates the characters and whisks them out of sight like so many folding chairs. He skims over a world where things cut two ways and cancel one another out. He is very civilized, possibly overcivilized: the sort of man who would add s'il vous plaît to the Ten Commandments...