Word: rude
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...made a study of the boy, as well as the condition book," explains Chick Lang. "I had to. My biggest problem isn't mounts, but Billy's personality. I spend most of my time trailing around after him, apologizing to people he's insulted. He's particularly rude if he hasn't won. He's the most competitive athlete I ever saw. If he doesn't win, he won't talk to anybody...
...sees himself become a public monument in his own lifetime runs the risk of finding rude and irreverent remarks scribbled on the plinth. Such is the case of Britain's T. S. Eliot. Now he has had the ultimate accolade: a full-and fancy-dress parody. In the season's least subtle anagram, it is signed Myra Buttle; it represents the rebuttal to Eliot of a waspish and clever Cambridge lecturer in Far Eastern history named Victor Purcell (possibly, the publishers heavily hint, he had some distinguished anti-Eliot collaborators, including Robert Graves and C. Day Lewis...
...thinly fictionalized, essentially documentary book tells, in the words of Defense Attorney Paul Biegler, of the investigation and trial that follow. Biegler gets a series of rude shocks: luscious Laura's husband has a nasty disposition and a tendency to attack any man who admires his wife. There is some doubt that Laura was raped at all (in examining this problem, Author Voelker is even more clinical than James Gould Cozzens was in By Love Possessed). To make things still tougher for Defense Attorney Biegler, the prosecuting attorney-who is also Biegler's rival in an imminent congressional...
...General Francisco Franco led an army of Moors and Legionnaires out of Africa to join in the Spanish Civil War that brought him to power. Ever since, lance-bearing, scarlet-robed Moorish cavalrymen have attended the dictator on state occasions. But the rude surge of Moroccan nationalism, threatening to overrun Spanish holdings in North Africa, put the old soldier's loyalty to his Moors under heavy strain...
Unfortunately, Dreyer's defects are almost as spectacular as his virtues. If he is passionately true to himself, he can also be childishly subjective: his conception of the Christ (Preben Lerdorff Rye), for instance, is simply silly. And at times he is pointlessly rude to his audience. It is all very well to make a scene move slowly when the slowness adds to the weight and seriousness of the situation. But there is no good esthetic reason why every scene, regardless of content, should move at the doleful, two-beat trudge of a funeral march...