Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...future. The film, however, has some distinguishing features. Wallace Beery shambles through the plot with his hand on his holster and the vaguely reproachful mien of a wounded rhinoceros. Even his romance muscle-woman Marjoric Main smacks of mating season in Tanganika. And few actors in Hollywood have sheer primitivism down to such a fine art as Wallace Beery. Another distinguishing feature of the picture is the magnificent landscapes; in fact, the upper part of the screen is far wilder and woolier than the action in the foreground...
...people who had fears for national unity were obviously not talking sheer fantasy. The citizens whose undemonstrative loyalty to the President can be taken for granted are those who do not take their politics hard. Franklin Roosevelt is among those who in recent years have inspired citizens to take their politics hard.And among several groups who have taken their politics harder than Americans did formerly are those who distrust the course set by the New Deal and the temperament of Franklin Roosevelt...
...real charm has mysteriously gone up in smoke, leaving only the ashes of a facile, perfunctory exercise in the mechanics of composing. But if you listen again to the Mozart G-minor, you continue, (at least, I do) to be haunted by its deep-driven intensity and the sheer melodic beauty which contains it. Perhaps another way of looking at it would be to say that if the music is really beautiful (and here again we are dealing with the slipperiest terminology)--if, I say, there is real beauty in the notes, you may be sure they are the product...
...proved that her physician was having her take a tablespoonful of whiskey every two hours to steady her nerves against the Blitz, notwithstanding was fined $80. One Alfred Jack Perry, 34, was arraigned at Stratford-on-Avon for walking past a time bomb against police orders. "This was sheer obstinacy!" boomed the mag istrate, fined Jack...
...demonstrated that hope was far from dead in Chungking. During the week Japanese-inspired peace rumors rose mistily from Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong. The Chinese quickly fanned away these hopeful vapors. China's erudite Ambassador to the U. S. Dr. Hu Shih said of these rumors: "Sheer nonsense. China has lost vast and important territories and has suffered stupendous casualties. ... In spite of these, China still fights...