Word: soul
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Only Siam responded promptly to the State Department's invitation to a joint statement. But there was new debate and soul-searching in all the free countries of the world. The Vietnamese government itself was strengthened when an important bloc of local fence-sitters decided to support the fight against Ho Chi Minh. In France, the anti-Communists spoke up more boldly. For the first time the French, noting that the Chinese Communists were already providing artillery and antiaircraft guns at besieged Dienbienphu, were saying that the war had entered a new phase and might be "internationalized," if necessary...
...garrison of Paris will have to be there for honors and the sounding of trumpets, the glorious police of Paris to keep order. All of us ... will speak not a single word, will utter not a single cry. Above the calm of this immense silence will float the soul of France...
...performance were the sole standard, Monsieur Vincent might be comparable to Martin Luther. But the life of de Paul, at least as the film presents it, lacks the dramatic struggles and soul-searchings which Luther experienced. The good Saint begins as a priest called to help the poor, and ends with the same firm dedication. The events of his life, significant because they deepen his insight into the grislier side of poverty, seem obscurely connected. For a biographical film, this is probably the more realistic approach, since few men lead lives which come to a climax in the third...
...Romans 13:1: Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained...
From this point on, it is fairly clear that Saadia is not about sex, but then, it is not about much of anything else, either. There is a witch (Wanda Rotha) who changes into an owl and a Holy Man (Cyril Cusack) who declares that Saadia "has a soul capable of the most extraordinary action." In fact, she turns out to be a sort of North African Calamity Jane, who rides off into the badlands, carves up a bandit chief, steals back some serum he has stolen, and so saves the country from a bubonic plague...