Word: suggestive
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Small groups of admirers formed in different cities; Lebanese exiles circulated around him; circles of twelve poets each, appointed for life and acknowledging Gibran as master, were organized in New York, Damascus, Beirut. His poetry in Arabic was apparently more striking than his vague, formless lines in English would suggest...
...President's message to Congress, the Times applauded.) Editor Crowther, whose first outburst had been marked by well-reasoned rage, came up again with an ill-timed, ill-natured, ill-reasoned diatribe against U.S. military policy. At this, even the Daily Mail was moved to shush the Lion, suggest that enough was enough...
Prim, cautious Lord Templewood-whom the late, great Lord Curzon once characterized as "descended from a long line of maiden aunts"-did not go so far as to suggest that Franco, the Falange, the Army, the Church, the big landowners, or the aristocracy might have had something to do with Spain's plight. He found the villainy of Germany corrupting not only Spain but all Europe: "Posterity will say that the worst German crime is the studied destruction of all moral values of Europe...
...flamboyant salute to the Air Forces, comes to the screen substantially unchanged in cast, story and general feeling. Like the original play, it is as immaculately robust as if it had just stepped out of a barracks shower; indeed, it would gain considerably if it did not so often suggest a Boy Scout Jamboree. Like the original, too, it generates among spectators the sort of friendliness normally reserved for amateurs, since all of its male performers are Air Forces men and the profits go to Army charities. But every one of the players was a more or less seasoned professional...
...have maintained through 15,693 lines, and have made it clear, resonant and readable. Poets only by avocation, they have not matched the ease and music of the Greek; but great poets have failed at this. They have used old-fashioned forms of language, considering such forms necessary to suggest Homer's ancientness, and in order to get extra syllables in the long lines. Their few attempts at modernity are incongruous...