Word: prickingly
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...confusion centers in the analyst (David Niven), the figure whose bubble reputation the satiric point is apparently intended to prick. But the bubble is never blown; from the first scene, Niven is represented as little more than a passive scratching-post for a pack of pampered cats. But suddenly, in the last scenes, he turns into the father image-sober, sound, sententious, and yet as modern as a cubist grandfather's clock. In the meantime, the moviegoer has weltered through a series of vaguely amusing scenes that go nowhere almost as fast as the well-known labyrinth dream...
...tonight, the world will still be gauzed in pink, and the emphasis will be on sharpening those points that seem most likely to prick the Elis. Of particular interest in this respect will be the dive, an event which in the past has not always done what it might...
...mixture of affection and exasperation. Often she has tried to moderate his irritable perfectionism, which can result in his berating other actors. "Afterwards he's sorry, but no one is around then," she says. Harrison is equally harsh on himself, readily accepts criticism. "It's impossible to prick the man's bubble," says Lilli. "Rex doesn't have a bubble...
...years . . . the people of Eastern Europe have had a decade or more to appraise the system . . . The Soviet leaders are now unwilling to submit to the verdict of the peoples who know it best." Skillfully, Dulles picked up the sword of Khrushchev's own speech to point and prick at the Communist system, pointing out that...
...vaccinators used an instant preparation made from dried vaccine (conventional liquid vaccine spoils in the heat of Iran's outlying districts, where there is no refrigeration). Next came the women, breaking Moslem tradition by letting men other than their kinfolk touch them. The children yelled at the prick of the vaccinators, but a rearguard of tribesmen pushed them ahead. Band after band of Bakhtiari gained the pass, and the vaccinators worked on. By day's end their score was 3,007 inoculations...