Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sheer bed-living room farce, A Severed Head is manipulated cleverly and performed with skill. Heather Chasen as Antonia cat-licks laughs off her lines, and Paul Eddington as the pietistic psychoanalyst arcs his body in gestures of helpfulness, as if he were physically proffering mental health. As the anthropologist, Sheila Burrell looks like a shrunken head that has been restored to lifesize, and Robin Bailey's Martin, while a trifle actorish, is very much the passive modern vacuum-hero into whose life trouble rushes...
...Lieutenant-Governor, Bellotti did his best to defeat every progressive program put forward by his Governor. He opposed repealing capital punishment, reforming the tax structure, curbing the Governor's Council, and reorganizing the transit authority. What good Peabody did, he did without, and usually against, Bellotti's influence. The sheer opportunism of the Democratic candidate is astounding and inexcusable. Though he may secretly be a "gut liberal," the record does not justify electing him to find...
...height of sheer horror wasn't reached until a nightmarish second quarter when Dartmouth scored 28 points in 11 minutes...
What seems to keep them unhinged in Act I is the sheer lack of anything to do. Newton fiddles with his curly 18th century wig, Einstein saws at his fiddle, while Solomon keeps listening for those voices in his head. The lady hunchback (Jessica Tandy) who manages this loony bin shuffles around like a witch off a broomstick. Her charges all murder their nurses...
...high table, mediating between East and West. He often exasperated the committed men of both sides. But he became a kind of special saint for the uncommitted, the uncertain, the uneasy, who only hoped for the best without knowing just what the best was, who believed that sheer good will could somehow resolve all the world's conflicts. His very immobility was reassuring; at times he seemed the still point of the turning world. Not even Dag Hammarskjöld's close friends knew that this dispassionate diplomat was a tormented man who poured out his emotions...