Word: relishingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pinnacle of hyenic humor was the hyena, the classic hyena, that hit too jar back while running, would circle madly, snapping and tearing at himself until he pulled his own intestines out, and then stood there, jerking them out and eating them with relish...
...fair damsels, besting his enemies with fists, swords and guns and altogether making an entirely likable scamp. As the main object of his affections, Italian Actress Gina Lollobrigida is so shapely that she seems to bulge from the screen in the best 3-D style. Directed with sly relish by Christian-Jaque, Fanfan the Tulip is an enjoyable French costume western and a witty spoof of the typical movie swashbuckler...
Supporting the professional performers in their leading roles are approximately 800 of Terracina's citizens, who go about their acting jobs with relish. Good musical touch: the satirical score that blares out from the screen at intervals, entirely drowning out the strident, arm-waving speechifying of the antagonists...
...have only two eggs for breakfast. Going beyond the call of duty, the cook initiated a series of regular reports on what and how much MacCulloch ate every day, "indicating with appropriate smiles and glances when he's overdoing it." Martin is looking forward with thinly disguised relish to the day that MacCulloch asks for three eggs. The cook, Martin explains, is a judo expert, fourth class...
...Mary's hope that readers of this biography will find it free of "the animus which, regrettably, is part of the human make-up." The hope, regrettably, is not justified. Every last frailty and intimate secret of Bernarr Macfadden is exposed by Mary and her ghost with such relish that by the time they are through with him, the Father of Physical Culture sounds much more of a human being than he ever did before. Moreover, Bernarr takes on unexpected stature as the modern pioneer of the low-heel shoe, the bed board, enriched flour, sun bathing, brief swimsuits...