Word: morbidness
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...actress. First of all, she has chosen to reduce the play to a five-scene, non-stop performance, a choice which only serves to increase the tedium of the whole proceeding. By casting Mary Alice Moore, who was obviously made for something frothy by Philip Barry, in this morbid, introspective play, she has committed an error sufficient to throw the entire play out of focus. And in her role as the aunt, Miss LeGallienne demonstrates she still believes that elenching her hands and jutting out her jaw are sufficient substitutes for genuine acting. As for Margaret Webster and Victor Jory...
...police knew who the dead man was, and who owned the hut. Both were Existentialists-followers of the morbid postwar philosophy which holds that man is nothing but the sum of his experience and that all experience is inexplicable and tragic (TIME, Jan. 28). Was this an Existentialist murder? The police asked that question of the hut's owner. "An interesting problem," he answered tranquilly...
...will not come to you as a surprise to be told that your Confidential Guide is no more confidential than you intended it to be. We teachers have the morbid curiosity the flesh is heir to. By now you may be sure your pamphlet has driven its little wedge into the brain...
Some 4% of Budapest's citizens live in morbid, black-market-borne luxury, nightly jam the few remaining big hotels, famed restaurants like Gundel's or the Cafe Michel, theaters, cabarets and movie houses. For the rest of the people, food rations are down to 556 calories...
...likes Author Ward's psychic attitude, believes that The Snake Pit is "so good that you cannot read it in one sitting." Laymen, while appreciating the literary skill that illuminates the weird, narrow private life of the insane, may feel that The Snake Pit is just another morbid addition to the current boom in morbid pathological fiction...