Word: sullenness
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...King emerged from a nearby house, surrounded by aides and photographers. The Negroes burst into applause. They followed to the police lines that sealed the end of Jackson St. and taunted the sullen white faces, not out of anger, as they had the day before, but out of pride and cockiness, for it was they and not the troopers that owned Dr. King...
...joke to have a ghost sink an old curmudgeon's opulent yacht docked outside the house, Benchley lets the ghost sink a second one. The ghosts, to be sure, have more life than the characters who are purportedly alive. There is Ebenezer, the ghost of a sullen, shifty sea captain who made a wraith of his infelicitous wife Felicity with a meat cleaver; and there is plump, blonde Jenny, who in her lifetime was known as a "hoor" among the townsfolk and who still plies her trade among the restless spirits. The novel is hardly more substantial...
Turning first to economics, De Gaulle began with a 20-minute justification of the De Gaulle policy-midway between the "excesses" of totally free enterprise and "sullen, colorless and savorless" socialism. Then he declared that the reunification of Germany, one of the cold war's most explosive issues, could be accomplished only "by Europe herself"; this brought snorts of disagreement from Washington, which considers the matter to be of wider concern...
Godard muddles an already tricky narrative with personal mannerisms and outright irrelevancies. Brigitte Bardot is a sullen enigma as the wife, and Michel Piccoli as the husband is merely opaque. Hollywood's Jack Palance makes the producer seem to be none other than Jack Palance...
Although visually engrossing throughout, Incident suffers from textual dullness at first but soon builds up steam. Four of the performances manage to convey fully rounded characters: Joseph Wiseman's intense and anguished psvchiatrist, Harold Scott's buffeted and sullen gypsy, Ira Lewis' adolescent boy (who disappoints only when he speaks), and Will Lee's old Jew (who utters not a word but seems to carry all of Jewish history in his aged frame...