Word: passional
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...leading character is Robert Grant, who is fiftyish, roly-poly, and "a moral leper." Grant spends his life chasing women and dollars with obsessive passion; he is not a hypocrite, since he lacks the degree of self-awareness necessary for hypocrisy; he is simply an ugly tub of flesh who snatches and grabs, whimpers and bellows, cringes and brutalizes as his pleasures demand, without ever feeling the slightest genuine regard for anyone. He invites women to his room for "a little tea, a little chat," tells them that "a woman like you could keep a man. I'm looking...
...shepherd boy who inherited his father's passion for whittling, and grew up to be one of the best sculptors alive, Městrović has two closely related reasons for staying away from Yugoslavia: 1) he knows what the inside of a jail looks like (the Fascists jugged him at the start of the war, released him only at the Pope's request); 2) he is no Titolitarian...
...Thomas More) has often been used as a vehicle to show what a wonderful Utopia awaits man. In Huxley's hand this form becomes a desperate, overworked and sometimes incoherent jeremiad directed against a destruction-bent, unheeding world. As a satirist, Huxley has neither Swift's passion nor Celine's gusto; he simply can't stand the world any more, not even enough to pillory...
...wrote a friend that "music needs freshness . . . I am conscious of nothing but lassitude and crabbedness." He composed little, settled down in Paris to grow fat from his well-stocked wine cellar and his imported bolognas. When friends chided him for being lazy, Rossini replied: "I always had a passion for idleness...
...late-Victorian widow (Ann Todd) that she becomes his front in a particularly ugly plot for blackmail, leading to murder. Thanks chiefly to Ann Todd's able and sympathetic performance, it is possible to guess that essentially this is a study of the disintegration, through sexual passion, of a morally delicate character. But the script can never say as much-still less examine the facts. Its only sufficient explanation of the widow is that she is all but certifiably gullible in matters of business and the heart. And since she is the heroine, there...