Word: minuetting
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...characters' interplay fascinates, creating an impression of richness that goes far beyond the superficialities of the average house show. For once the characters aren't so much cardboard as flesh and blood. They seem to be acting out their slow dance for their own benefit, indulging in a graceful minuet apart from the numbing coldness of the killing ground outside. Brought off with impassioned style, by its conclusion Slow Dance has been transformed into a striking danse macabre...
...drawing-room soapboxer - but what a magical box and what an enchanting drawing room! Here, he conducts words as if they were grace notes from Mozart or thunderclaps from Wagner. He leads the dance of ideas as if it were a minuet of the mind. He deploys conflicting personalities like a field marshal and has them lob paradoxes at each other as if they were hand grenades...
...Mitterrand and his Socialists must come to grips with the other major force on the French left, the 500,000-member Communist Party of France (P.C.F.). That will be no easy thing to do. Relations between the two parties over the years resemble nothing so much as a complicated minuet. For a while the parties move in step, and then they each go their separate and stubborn ways...
Despite the snag that had arisen, Washington officials remained encouraged by the tone of the Iranian questions, which suggested that Tehran might at least be seriously considering the U.S. terms. Explained an official familiar with the minuet of the negotiations: "They were asking us, 'If what you propose were to take place, how would it be done and what would happen next?' They engaged our proposals...
...course, Mikali will run afoul of the one man capable of discovering his double life. Of course, these adversaries will stage their final showdown on the occasion of Mikali's greatest triumph, a concert in London's Albert Hall. The plot, as formally predictable as a minuet, diverts without disturbing. Higgins' prose is simple to the point of sketchiness. Sentences lack verbs-a lot of sentences. Clichés nudge the brain along well-worn paths: "That sixth sense that had kept him alive for so long now, scenting danger like some jungle animal...