Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plots separate and yet synchronized. Bill Owen was a magnificent Touchstone and Ernest Thesiger was equally good as Jaques, the banished duke's attendant. Thesiger delivered the "All the world's a stage" lines with a forcefulness that, for a moment, eclipsed even Hepburn. William Prince as Orlando seemed somewhat less polished than the rest of the cast. The opening dialogue of the play, between him and Adam, the old servant, was too emotional for a beginning, but even Prince improved as the play progressed...
...cause of poetry is somewhat redeemed by English Poet Dylan Thomas and by T. S. Eliot. Thomas reads with a rich, controlled romantic lilt, and Eliot's dramatic rendering of a passage from The Waste Land makes it suddenly spring to excited life. The reader begins to discover the pleasures poetry can sometimes yield without guides, crutches or bridges...
Thus TIME says, "Somewhat underestimating Russian science, Bush writes: 'It is a far cry indeed from the time when the enemy has a bomb.' Even as Bush's book was going to press, President Truman announced that the Russians...
Adventures in Manhattan. Somewhat to the surprise of his welcomers, he also proved to be a thoughtful, articulate spokesman for Iran's modernization plans and its need for economic and military help from the U.S. He took great pains to explain that he was not "an Oriental potentate, but a modern, liberal, constitutional monarch whose powers . . . are somewhat less than those [of] the King of Sweden...
Mozart: Concerto In C, K. 467 (Robert Casadesus, pianist, with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Charles Münch conducting; Columbia, 2 sides, LP). One of the greatest concertos, played beautifully but somewhat bloodlessly. Recording: good...