Word: matter-of-fact
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...story its shape and suspense. But the religious theme is handled with rare restraint and good taste. The face of Christ is never fully revealed. The Sermon on the Mount, The Trial. The Ascent of Calvary and The Crucifixion are pictured, without breathless reverence, in a matter-of-fact manner, as contemporary political events...
...speaks, Seeger's voice registers two distinctly different tones. When he reminisces about his life, or discusses the historical aspect of folk music, it is matter-of-fact. But whenever he talks of his concern for peace and understanding, or his faith in mankind, he seems to project himself onto the concert stage: his voice becomes resonant and sincere. He is like a universal lover pleading with the world to 'believe in me, for I speak the truth...
What follows is perhaps the most effective provocation to panic that has been seen on-screen since the high-explosive horrors of The Wages of Fear (TIME. Feb. 21, 1955). The executioners-friendly, ordinary, matter-of-fact men who look as though they had never dispatched anything more vital than a letter-proceed calmly with their preparations, and the camera dispassionately watches every lethal detail. Gravely they draw on their rubber gloves. Delicately they decant the sulfuric acid. Tidily they bundle the little white eggs of cyanide into a sack of gauze. Politely they unroll the carpet from the cell...
...picked up the phone slowly, with a strange, terribly matter-of-fact air. "Hello," he said in a dull, unfamiliar voice. "This is Marrowitz's Market. Marrowitz speaking...
...Scientists. "Zionism," says a tutor at Jerusalem's handsome new Hebrew University, "is no longer a dynamic concept because it has done what it set out to do." Young Israelis in general seem to be moving from their fathers' ideals toward a more matter-of-fact Israeli patriotism, with the solid goal of making a place for their country among the other Semitic states of the Middle East. Many Sabras look for leadership to former Chief of Staff Moshe Dayan. 43, who recently left his army command to study history at the Hebrew University and is regarded...