Word: outerness
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...minutes later, Daniele's secretary noticed that he was still standing moodily in the outer office. Daniele came out. "Look," he said, "I have spoken to you without ill-feeling. I have also made you a promise. Now, it's better that...
Then, in the humiliation of his last days at school, a simple act of kindness changes The Crock's life. A pupil (Brian Smith) astonishes him by presenting a parting gift, a copy of the Agamemnon in the Robert Browning translation. This gesture pierces The Crock's outer crust and strikes an emotional gusher. With the help of Rattigan's facile plotting, it leads to the wife's comeuppance at the hands of her lover and, finally, to a rebellious upsurge of self-respect in The Crock...
When Austin Myers came to Texas from the Republican outer world in 1900, he refused to shuck his political convictions just because he found himself surrounded by infidels. Stubbornly, year after year, he voted the G.O.P. ticket. But last week, at the age of 100, he enrolled as a Democrat. "I expect to live here the rest of my life," he said, "and I'm tired of being on the losing side...
...ringing echo from the regime of rape and rapaciousness. A shrunken man in his 70s stood before a court in law-abiding San Jose, Costa Rica, and paid a fine after conviction on a morals charge involving minor girls. The culprit was sick and lonely but no down & outer. An arrogant sybarite, wealthy from U.S. investments, with a fierce, bristling mustache, he gave his name to the court as Santos Matute...
...medicine, and more recently the movies. Most of the results have been pretty bad. Pictures like "The Thing," and "Rocket Ship X-M" are displacing Westerns as the favorite form of movie entertainment. But "The Day the Earth Stood Still" is a notable exception to the general run of outer-space productions...