Word: regarded
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...OFFERTORY: "In theory, the whole congregation surging up into the sanctuary and presenting you, the priest, with the bread and wine, their contribution to the mysteries. Actually, in their name, a small boy emerges from the background, probably with hiccoughs; at first sight you are tempted to regard him as an unwelcome distraction, then you remember that he stands there in the name of the congregation...
When scientists are feeling a heavy sense of their social responsibility, they prefer to dust their hands of the atom bomb: its threatened misuse they regard as a purely political matter and out of their control. But science willingly accepts responsibility for another "chain reaction": the frightening, snowballing increase of the human population has been brought about by science's contribution to human health and fertility...
...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 for an oasis in my desert, a rose on a blasted heath," and then, his conquest made, he slips them money...
...Leonards treat their suppliers with the same regard as their customers. Salesmen are met at the railroad station with limousines, and office space is provided them. The store has a fleet of trucks which pick up much of the merchandise it buys-a scheme that helps to keep down costs...
...believe that he has good sense. When he finally does come clean, his wife's reactions to the truth are unqualifiedly abominable, and remain so. But it is obvious-and hard to bear-that Dick and everyone else connected with the making of this movie regard her as an ideal wife whose abominableness is completely justified...