Word: poignant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...enthusiasm for her latest book is unqualified. One of Ours, her story of the War, which was awarded one of the Pulitzer Prizes last year, I did not care for. It is not nearly so wise a book as Edith Wharton's poignant A Son at the Front or Thomas Boyd's Through the Wheat. A Lost Lady, however, is a character study of strength and beauty. The story of a highstrung, attractive, weak woman, told as she is reflected in the lives of her various lovers,: is superbly wrought. I can think of no other picture...
...pleasure to be able to portray life as it really is and make it vitally interesting. Many a man can visualize a heroine saved from a villain's grasp by the heroic pistol point; but only the rare genius can make the purchase of a new golf course poignant...
...more competent piece of work, exhibiting the lyric smoothness we demand of modern sonneteers: it is unfortunate, however, that he had to employ a combination of two weak rhymes in his sextet. In his limpid classic fragment called "Separation", Mr. James Sherry Mangau gives us the poignant sensations of a lover deploring the absence of his Hawatian princess, whose sonorous name appropriately terminates the simple lyric...
...relatives, her suitors, her friends, her husband?always charmingly, always quite believing the pose of the moment?and nearly always getting herself and all around her into bushels of trouble. The ingrained human fondness for self-dramatization has seldom been more ingratiatingly described than in this charming and sometimes poignant comedy of the impulses and poses of a highly attractive young American...
...conveys their meaning almost as adequately as words. In this last week in New York they are presenting a complete repertory. THE GOD OF VENGEANCE-The daughter of the keeper of a brothel succumbs to her environment in a powerfully explicit scene with a Lesbian. Rudolph Schildkraut gives a poignant performance as the agonized father. The producers and cast have been indicted because of its alleged immortality. MERTON OF THE MOVIES-Through no will of his own, a movie-struck youth becomes a film comedian. The process is attended by no little disillusionment. _ RAIN-A spirited attack...