Word: soullessly
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Perhaps Author Remarque has tried to write his story too soon. Most likely, the enormity of the crime he tries to dramatize has swamped him. His story of faceless victims and soulless destroyers occasionally enrages the mind; it seldom engages the heart...
...view of Ferrer's characterization of Cyrano, Mala Powers' Roxane might be excused. She is beautiful and completely soulless. If she had been any less shallow, nobody in the film would have fallen in love with her at all. As it is, it seems incredible that she should be in love with the soul of Cyrano rather than the body of Christian. There is no conflict of Flesh vs. the Soul. One gets the impression that the producers have set the stage with the conventional hero and heroine, but through some slip-up of a script writer, the wrong...
...bound by a common thread of dislike for those excesses of thought, even the excesses of such greats as Tolstoy and Swift, which fringe on totalitarian fanaticism. In two brilliant essays he shows how scorn and lack of pity led Swift to portray the ideal Houyhnhnm society as a soulless mechanism, and how Tolstoy's harsh morality blinded him to the truth of Shakespeare's tragedies...
...Bailey is weakest where it might have been richest: in Author O'Donnell's sketchy, fleshless recounting of the trials that took place there through the centuries. He seems to be chiefly interested in showing off Old Bailey's progress from the dim, grim, soulless courtroom of the Reformation days, when more than 200 different crimes carried the death penalty, to today's "fine and stately" oak-paneled Central Criminal Court, where justices take a not-guilty verdict calmly...
...projects looked like "military barracks." Just what, then, should a proper Soviet structure look like? Pravda didn't seem to know much about architecture, but it knew what it didn't like. Western architecture, said Pravda, "has reached a dead end of formalist sophistication and box-style, soulless construction [but] Soviet art is always going forward along the road indicated by the party and the government...