Word: sloth
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...morality so one-sided that it has deformed the very meaning of the word to sexual offences. And yet, if every man living were to sleep in his neighbor's bed, it could not bring the world so near shipwreck as that pride, that avarice and that intellectual sloth which the church has forgotten to write in the tale of its capital sins...
Just as engaging as his people are Bemelmans' animals and still lifes. He saw an agonized baroque statue of Jesus crowned with a Shirley Temple wig; a native painting of a waterfall which resembled "noodle soup running down over a green couch"; a sloth's "unfinished face"; a fly, the description of whose trajectories is one of the most delectable pieces of animal-writing in literature...
...Bank Dick (Universal) is the long-awaited reward for followers of cob-nosed Comedian W. C. Fields. The reward is the more rewarding because his recent pictures were impeded by the disconcerting presence of irrelevant comics. In this one, the Sultan of Sloth finally achieves the kind of delightful outrage which has made his fan list long & faithful. There are 74 minutes of almost clear Fields-as much a one-man show as the fences of cinema formula will allow...
Olson brings out the design and freshens up the colors of this faded legend by putting it under the spotlight of today; turns it into a surrealistic cyclorama of human fate. In the foreground the seven deadly sins of Sloth, Gluttony, Envy, Lust, Avarice, Pride, Anger move like insatiable' ghouls through the golden haze of eternity. The background is left for the individual cyclorama-goer to fill...
Socialist Blum, whose Popular Front has been condemned by Vichy for disrupting French home life, spreading sloth and dissatisfaction among French workers, and generally running France by orders from the U. S. S. R., kept quietly to himself. He wearily stroked his straggling mustache, said little, did little...