Word: sakes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nazis seem equally lifelike. The Commandant (Tonio Selwart) is wholly uninterested in cruelty for its own sake...
...more protest, at least, should be registered for the sake of honesty and propriety. The show was marvelous, but without Julie Oshins and Ezra Stone it would have been only good, and if there's one thing the movie needs it's the life that those two would provide. The tumbling and the juggling doesn't quite come off on the screen...
...plot of Hostages is complicated but it never turns into plot for plot's sake. Every new twist flashes a facet of the Nazi, quisling or underground political mind. These facets would flash brighter if all the characters were more incisive and the scenes moved faster...
...Committee also found that there seemed to be "an attitude of regulations for the sake of regulations." "For instance," they point out, "the students may have as many cooked tomatoes as they wish, sometimes getting two or three whole tomatoes...
...same beaten road stretched ahead, and Adolf Hitler saw it. Even the arrogant intuition could not feel victory: the Führer paid his lip service, but he was not really offering victory. Like Goebbels, Hitler could only tell the German people that, for honor's sake, they must clutch their hearts, march on in faithful discipline toward the precipice...