Word: mortalizes
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...smart talk on the one hand and chummy religious matter on the other. The Dove with the Bough of Olive is a brave and interesting try, but it seems to prove that any author who attempts to mix the frivolities of Belgravia with the profundities of Heaven is in mortal danger of going straight to Hollywood...
...that bomb-as Bikini has shown this month-the force of 'five hundred Hiroshimas' ... If the battle for . . . reasonable tolerance now being fought in the United States engages us strongly it is because if that country ever lost the liberal way of life democracy would be in mortal peril everywhere...
...dramatized his yearning for divine bliss. Dodgson "almost held my breath to watch" when the deposed Queen Katharine of Aragon saw in a vision "a troop of angelic forms" hovering about her. "So could I fancy (if the thought be not profane), would real angels seem to our mortal vision." he wrote. And when the queen awoke and found the vision gone. Dodgson all but "shed tears" as she cried aloud...
Ralph Flanders found "much to praise and much to deplore" in McCarthyism. When McCarthy does an effective job of cleaning out the "cobwebs and spiders" left in the cellarway by the previous Administration, Flanders said, that is praiseworthy. "But let him not so work as to conceal mortal danger in which our country finds itself from the external enemies of mankind...
...theory, the famed La Motte Fouque romance should suit the author of The Madwoman of Challlot to perfection. Giraudoux could delicately regild the tale of a sprite who loved and wed and herself became a mortal, only to return from a dismaying world to the deep, her knightly husband dead of her farewell kiss. Giraudoux could savor its melancholy turns and bitter twists, its clash between innocence and worldliness, its sense of mankind's dreams of perfection and descent into reality. And Giraudoux's own resolute but compassionate worldliness does touch Ondine with glints and flecks of gold...