Word: straightforwardness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were unmoved. The New York Post's Columnist William V. Shannon summed it up for the dissidents when he called Van Doren's testimony "a tasteless exercise in guile and unction. The basic problem seems to be his iron egotism. Can't we have a manly, straightforward admission of error without all this hokum about his 'responsibilities to my fellow men'? . . . I could not care less whether Charlie Van Doren made $10 or $129,000. But dignity, self-respect, restraint and detachment are civilized values that we should cherish. Van Doren affronted those values...
After about an hour of this, the scene shifts to the French Riviera, where the unattended wife meets a tall, straightforward French soldier (Cesare Danova). In his wallet is a seminude picture of her, clipped from a fan magazine; he has carried it from the 38th Parallel to Dienbienphu. He shows it to her and confesses his secret love. She bares her arid heart. They bolt to his clifftop villa...
...film production. Kuba herself boasts a villa on Lake Starnberg with two cabin cruisers and a speedboat, a villa on the Riviera, a chalet in Switzerland, a stable of expensive cars, a Skye terrier named Putzi and a black poodle named Wutzi. It is all confirmation of her own straightforward formula for success: "All I want to see in my movies is what I enjoy seeing myself-a pretty girl, a handsome man, a little dancing, a little laughter, a few tears, and lots of heart...
Miss Harris is the perfect pixie. With a toss of her head, or a shrug of her shoulders, she conveys the essence of boyish awkwardness. Her Peter is straightforward and innocent, and she seldom resorts to coyness. Consequently she avoids the pitfall of appearing too "cute," and is, instead, totally captivating and convincing. In short, she is Peter...
...myth before he was 30. The fact that the redoubtable French and Indian Warrior was, at one time or another, a resident of debtors' prison, a suspect in a counterfeiting ring, and a defendant in a treason trial should not, Author Cuneo argues in his able and straightforward biography, be held against...