Word: spuriousness
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Uprooted from her old house by a spurious urban-renewal scheme in Knoxville, Louvenia had lost the will to live. She was "gone, not even to a major highway but to a cutoff of a cutoff...
...result of his defection, Stone found himself unprintable when The Compass folded in 1953. His colleagues had made their peace with the new American anti-communist line, compromised with McCarthyism and set about their job of ignoring the obvious and swallowing the spurious. There was no room in American journalism for a famous reporter who did not believe that truth changed with every committee hearing or State Department White Paper. Stone refused to be silenced: he took his $3500 severance pay and a Compass subscription list and set about creating a one-man weekly, with his wife, Esther...
...Royal Shakespeare Company's production is impeccable. Vivien Merchant (Mrs. Harold Pinter), who is to Pinter's plays what Clara Schumann was to her husband's music, plays the woman with a mixture of hauteur and girlish romanticism. She makes the character both menacing and slightly spurious. Colin Blakely is blessedly funny and touching as the bluff husband whose male pride is aroused but baffled. He is apparently victorious but eventually frustrated. In the role of the mysterious wife, Dorothy Tutin catches the unconscious cruelty of an indifference that can take anything but give nothing...
...Nixon's personal qualities that bring from Osborne uncompromising language: "The viewed Nixon-the sullen mouth twitching on order into that spurious smile, the quality of cold and unceasing calculation to be seen in his little eyes-aroused in me a sense of ingrained and ineradicable cheapness...
...middle age and beyond. Most often, those who were adults in the ancient days before 1960 glance back with either fondness or sadness, but rarely with bitter regret. They look at the past with the secret sense of triumph that comes to all survivors. Besides, nostalgia gives them a spurious sense of sophistication; it enables them to feel superior by laughing at simpler times...