Word: noblest
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...Catholic tradition, but resemble a charade when plucked from that context. But the freeing of imagination by the surrealists remains a tremendous achievement. Be yond the froth - the ideological absurdities, the rampant narcissism, the window display and chic decor - surrealism remains one of the century's noblest proposals of liberty...
...demonic force from the nether world, there is also a doomed lyrical romanticism, a nocturne by Chopin, infused into the play. Tall, slender, incomprehensible as magic, garbed in a cape of Stygian splendor, with a face sculptured in alabaster, Langella's Dracula is no flittering bat but the noblest prince of darkness-the fallen Lucifer-as the play makes elliptically clear, whom only the Cross and the stake can bring to his apocalyptic destiny. Langella has always been a spectral, neurasthenic figure onstage with a temperament of icy disdain. For him this is a role of roles, one with...
...like McKay, Lombardi had a style. It was ferocity. That, plus his victories at Green Bay, made him the focus for a generation of football writing. Presently, we heard from the right that Lombardi was the noblest Roman since Octavius. (Not Brutus. Brutus lost.) The left suggested that he would have made a perfect fascist. In the cacophony people forgot that Lombardi was only a football coach who put Xs and Os on a board-righthanded...
Seven minutes of commercials each hour is a small price to pay for seeing the Olympics "up close and personal," to borrow ABC'S own phrase. Yet this Olympiad saw many advertisers straining to link their products to the noblest ideals of athletic competition-and at a staggering cost. The result was a kind of electronic jock itch. Schlitz spent $4.5 million to air its effective series of ads. Joe Namath huddled with an assortment of international machos, trying to give the impression that Brut deserved a seat in the United Nations. McDonald's, Burger King and Pizza...
Will Hussung, who had a less prominent role in the original 1953 production, is good as the octogenarian Giles Corey, one of the noblest figures in the Salem saga. Rather than plead guilty or innocent, Corey steadfastly remained mute, the only way under the law that he could insure his property would go to his sons. To force a plea out of him, heavy stones were piled on his chest. Saying only, "More weight," he died. (Corey and his brave death figure more prominently in Lyon Phelps' aforementioned dramatization...