Word: shriekingly
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Shotgun. Harrison watched part of the mob lead quivering Roger Malcolm and George Dorsey down a sandy track toward an oak tree. The Negro wives left behind in the car began to shriek. Harrison heard one of them call out the name of one of the mob, but swore he couldn't remember what...
...uncontrolled laughter ended in a hysterical shriek...
...wondering what the dimwitted, unprincipled characters will think of next. They think of a good many things, mostly criminal. Almost as soon as Edward G. Robinson spots Joan Bennett underneath a street lamp, cinemaddicts will be able to predict the general course of events, right up to the final shriek. By the time Robinson tries to hang himself from the light fixture of a cheap hotel room, most audiences may be sick & tired of all the scheming characters and their doomed, impractical schemes...
...Madame Bovary of the wheat elevators, was the archetype of a million repressed U.S. small-town men & women. Even readers who detested Carol Kennicott as much as her Gopher Prairie neighbors did were attracted by her husband, solid, plodding long-suffering Dr. Will Kennicott. Main Street was a shriek against the standardized smugness of U.S. life and a coo of satisfaction that it was so solidly smug...
...resonant stone vault. Its occupant has died before your eyes, but you can't be too sure, for she was subject to cataleptic trances. After the pallbearers have gone, the camera coldly, tenderly approaches the coffin in a silence so intense as to be almost unbearable. When the shriek of the prematurely buried woman finally comes, it releases the rest of the show into a free-for-all masterpiece of increasing terror...