Word: sensuous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allusion and implication that these realistic descriptions become more than more enumerations and the subtle skill of Bunin in arranging and presenting the details in an artistically wover pattern gives a latency of meaning that is forceful and compelling. He knows life and love and communicates the sensuous expression of these naturally and convincingly...
Bestirred with such ballyhoo, the aver age playgoer might have been justified in expecting more than the moments of sensuous beauty he got at Within the Gates. Mr. O'Casey's point is that the world has been considerably upset since the War, that Capitalism can offer no security, that in the crisis Mother Church has been discovered to be a humbug...
...search for power drives Sol from his love for Sarah Glassman; his restless soul is never satisfied; his confused ideals and desires lead him on in unceasing search for anything which seems inaccessible to him. Having achieved his goal of wealth and industrial dominance, having compelled the vacuous, sensuous mistress of his former employer to marry him, he suddenly attempts to regain the shattered affections of Sarah, but she resists him, knowing that happiness and peace shall never be his. He does not want the things which he has achieved; he merely wants to achieve them and call them...
...ballet's future. But the Monte Carlo Ballet Russe and the development of Choreographer Leonide Massine gave him fresh hope. The Monte Carlo Ballet, now on the verge of a five months' U. S. tour. has four outstanding dancers : handsome David Lichine, spectacular for his leaps, his sensuous grace; pretty feathery Tatiana Riabouchinska, whom Colonel de Basil has insured against marriage; dark dynamic Tamara Tamounova and Irina Baronova. The greatest of these, says Critic Haskell, is Baronova, 15, ashy, pale-haired Russian emigrée who grew up in the Balkans, studied in Paris with the Imperial ballerina...
Built around, and sustained by the sensuous strains of Ravel's "Bolero," this film loses much of its effect when the rendition of the feature scene fails to come up to the mark. The recurrence of appealing waltzes and tangoes with the accomplished dancing of George Raft, Carole Lombard, and Frances Drake, and the absence of leg extravaganzas and water scenes, combine to make it a picture considerably above the average of musical revues...