Word: sodden
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...book trade's midsummer, or muggier-than-usual, season has begun. Mrs. Murphy, the July choice of the Book-of-the-Month Club, dutifully touted by B.-of-M.'s Bookpicker Clifton Fadiman as "compassionate" and "powerful," is a clumsy, cliche-sodden version of The Lost Weekend. The problem of the alcoholic in society is as grave as ever, 'but The Story of Mrs. Murphy swamps it with glycerine tears and marshmallow emotions...
...masters built paintings bit by bit, like houses. When they were finished building they knew it. Now I say the thing is finished when you finish what you have to say. Painting can be like building a campfire on a rainy day. Very difficult; the wood is sodden and you are down on your knees in the wet, blowing from above and from below. Suddenly the white flame blazes up and there it is. If you rearranged things you might ruin...
...stage plays which otherwise might not reach the boards, one id tempted to ask, as with their production of "Henry VIII," why this particular play was chosen for revival. For aside from its value as a specimen of Ibsen's development as a playwright, "John Gabriel Borkman" is a sodden and scarcely believable play...
...heart of the fire, heads down, coughing, while other firemen in the rear sent protective streams cascading over them. The fire-apparently started by a short circuit in a false ceiling above the Silver Lounge-died) almost as abruptly as it began. In half an hour the blackened, sodden lobby was free of flame...
During the German occupation these foresters had seen Nazi troops in the woods, had heard the sound of shots, had discovered fresh-turned earth. Carefully they had planted little pines to mark the places, with dates carved into the trunks. Now they pointed here, there. Picks thudded into the sodden soil...