Word: savored
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...preserved the art. They retain anchorage in a sea of ceaseless motion, of disquiet and drifting. You can make it a rule of life to withdraw each day into quiet and contemplation. You have but one life, and a short one, at your disposal. Only in leisure can you savor...
...wife; John Abbott as her twitchy brother; John Emery as an assistant scoundrel; and decorative performances by Alexis Smith as the heroine and Eleanor Parker (the woman of the title) in a double role. It is almost impossible to be frightened by the picture, but everybody involved seems to "savor" the period, as if it were fine old brandy. The brandy isn't as good as all that, but the savor is pleasant in an old-fashioned sort...
...months the French newspapers have been translating the U.S. phrase "cold war" as la guerre froide. To an imaginative and linguistically fertile people, this lacked a certain savor. Last week a new and entirely French label for the "cold war" was launched by one-eyed President of the Republic Vincent Auriol himself...
...difficult for U.S. moviegoers, even those who know enough French, to savor all these flavors. In order to insure wide U.S. distribution of the film, RKO has added to the soundtrack an English narration by Maurice Chevalier. This device, though useful, is about as welcome as having program notes read aloud during a Chopin nocturne...
Only the shortage of competent assistant professors in the Department delays the institution of an obviously-needed change. Young instructors, who might appear logical to man this sort of course, will hesitate to accept an assignment which they might savor but which they could certainly not utilize in terms of their academic world. Meanwhile the monumental Gide must find a casual comparative niche with Hardy and Conrad in English 62 rather than emerge in the context of his own culture...