Word: spoilsport
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...suddenly arouses laughter. The Guthrie treatment fares best when there is nothing much to treat: the air of secrecy proves more rewarding than the secret, the theatrical Herlie-burly than the philosophical coda. When the play finally turns serious, it seems, more than anything else, like a last-minute spoilsport. Were the play better or the philosophy more challenging, Guthrie's approach might smack of outrage; as things stand, it is perhaps the only armor against boredom...
Only one member of Segni's administration. Treasury Minister Silvio Gava, was spoilsport enough to ask where the money was to come from. When he got no satisfactory answer to his question, Gava threatened to resign, and was only talked out of it with some difficulty...
...notable spoilsport: ex-Metropolitan Opera Tenor Beniamino Gigli, whose claimed income of $20,640 matched the tax-collector's estimate...
Hager, no conscious spoilsport, bases his argument on elaborate geological studies of the crater's surroundings. Except for the presence of meteoritic material, he says, there is little or no evidence to prove that the mound or the depression in its center is of meteoric origin. One of his strongest points is that the sides of the mound are made largely of white sand arranged in regular beds. This seems to point to the slow action of normal erosion, not to the sudden impact of a meteorite hitting the earth. Another strong point is that no large mass...
MacMurray's homestead is equipped with props out of the Coney Island fun house: loose floorboard, collapsing bed, backfiring stove and a small gale that hits at the worst possible time. Heroine Dunne must also cope with livestock and servant problems, gossipy neighbors, a spoilsport (William Demarest) who controls the water supply, and the delicate affections of her husband's two daughters by another marriage...