Word: mope
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...Rothstein shouldn't mope. Lousy teams can gain respectability as quickly as you can say, "The Chicago Bulls select Michael Jordan...
...Dewitt did not mope, for he resolved to break that habit...
Gielgud directed a Hamlet in which Guinness had a small part, and he can still hear that berating voice -- "like a silver trumpet muffled in silk." "Go away," he told Guinness crossly. "Come back in a week. Get someone to teach you how to act." Guinness did nothing except mope for seven days, but his absence was enough. Gielgud was now delighted with the young actor's new interpretation...
That may be because not much actually happens. Gilbert and Johanna mope around Germany while her aristocratic Prussian parents try to persuade them both of their un conscionable folly. Dead ends are followed by standoffs. In the interims, Lawrence chats: "How a Times critic dropped on me for using the word toney! I'm sure I never knew it wasn't toney any more to say toney." And he preaches, "Let us confess our belief: our deep, our religious belief. The great eternity of creation does not lie in the spirit, in the ideal. It lies...
...films, two aging men without wives mope about the past; in the other, two aging women without husbands mope about the future. The characters all need rescuing. But forget the stories, here is a pair of pairs! Larry and Jackie (Olivier and Gleason), Liz and Carol (Taylor and Burnett). And what is unusual, apart from seeing such faces in made-for-cable movies, is that the predictable casting is reversed...