Word: spuriousness
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Stewart Holden '74, a member of the council, called its action Tuesday night "an outrage" and said that he spoke for many Mather House residents. He said that the problems Dobsen listed were "spurious", and attributed the voiding to conflict within the council...
...crosscutting. No scene seems to last longer than a minute, and Labro whisks the viewer backward, forward and sideways in time. The result gets a great deal of razzle going but stays short on dazzle. All the momentum established is artificial and constantly stalls out into spurious suspense. There are some nice incidental observations about the eccentricities of the rich-Cordell has his face imprinted on his personal checks and sleeps with a sort of large, mystic stone under his pillow-but watching The Inheritor gives a general feeling of false movements, like getting jostled in a crowd...
Both rationales were spurious. Much of the bombing was directed against the Plain of Jars in northeast Laos, hundreds of miles away from what the United States has dubbed the "Ho Chi Minh trail...
...Lady Angus, Lady Caithness, and an unspecified dowager. They often hover on the sidelines, and even take over the small role assigned to Lady Macbeth's servant. It is only in their incantatory privacy that they become obviously witchlike by donning half-masks. (Kahn of course omits the spurious interpolations involving Hecate, the patroness of witches; less commendably, he had done a little further cutting, though the production has a running-time of only two and a third hours...
...Everhart is splendid in his one comic cameo as the drunken Porter. Coleridge thought this scene spurious, but it is genuine Shakespeare and inspired dramaturgy. After murdering Duncan, Macbeth hears the chilling pounding at the gate and has second thoughts: "Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!" How follow such a climactic moment? Shakespeare's solution was perfect. The only comparable spot I can think of occurs in the finale of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, when the full chorus climaxes thrillingly with words about "standing before God," and is followed by the ludicrously syncopated sounds of a distant...