Word: rarer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...played will-he-or-won't-he-fall skit, full of characters walking to and from each other through luxurious rooms, and using astounding angled shots and hard cuts. The fourth episode involves us in a more deeply felt assignation-and so the drama proceeds. Walbrook's appearances becoming rarer and shorter...
...series of Tuesday afternoons, to what. in my view, is becoming excessively glib and insufficiently examined rhetoric concerning 'confidence,' authority and 'legitimacy,' without much regard to certain other matters of some moment, including responsibility and even, in some circumstances, a degree of sacrifice. It would be a still rarer individual who relished parliamentary debates explicitly, or more commonly implicitly, concerned what his own alleged qualities of mind and character...
Physical nakedness is performed by most people twice a day. Mental stripping is far rarer-a feat beyond the reach of any but the extremely gifted or courageous...
...common drug reactions involves isoniazid, the most widely used drug against tuberculosis. One of the rarer reactions is found among victims of porphyria (see following story), who suffer acute attacks if they take barbiturates; they may also be sensitive to the sulfas. At the opposite end of the reaction scale, some victims of an unusual form of rickets need more than 1,000 times the normal quantity of vitamin D before they respond...
...consistent set of symbols, to explain the course of history, and he intended his theory to be swallowed whole. The vision derives much of its poetic force from its unity, although few modern men gulp down the whole brew. Outside the Communist countries, formal conversion to Marxism is now rarer than it was a generation ago. Much Marxist influence is indirect and fragmentary. In some minds, fragments of the Marxist vision coexist-illogically-with Christianity or Freudianism. For most, it provides a rationale for criticizing society as it is, rather than a plan for moving toward society as it ought...