Word: sullenness
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...late, great Percy Hammond intoned: "Later in the day I shall probably meet an acquaintance and he will ask me, as is the practice of a reviewer's acquaintances, what, if anything, I think of Abie's Irish Rose. Whereupon I shall oppress him with a sullen silence and pass upon my gloomy ways...
Archbishop Francis Joseph Spellman, a chubby little man with twinkling eyes, looked down from the plane's windows on to the red & gold of Spanish soil, stretching below like a scarred and, crisscrossed piece of hide. From the air the land looked peaceful. But its people were sullen, impoverished, embittered, under a Fascist dictatorship which had claimed that the Spanish Civil War was a crusade for the Roman Catholic Church...
...crew that takes off from San Francisco in the Mary Ann is exquisitely ordinary. Among them are lanky, quiet Pilot Captain Quincannon (John Ridgely), who takes along one of his baby's dolls for good luck; moonfaced, wisecracking Waist Gunner Weinberg (George Tobias); tough, sullen Rear Gunner Winocki (John Garfield), who broods bitterly because he was washed out as a pilot. Crew chief, mechanic and handy man is sentimental old Sergeant Pop White (Harry Carey), who is corny and just right...
...officers, enlisted men and laborers . . . are anything but resigned and sullen prisoners. Once over his astonishment that he is being treated like a human being and given more food than he has probably had for some time, the Jap undergoes a rapid readjustment. Often he becomes a happy-go-lucky prisoner with a passion for horseplay, cigarets, American slang and swing tunes. . . . Each prisoner is allotted five native cigarets daily, but they would gladly trade them all for an American cigaret. Their favorite expression...
...effect. As long as the demands were peripheral-more showers, new lockers, better air-the management came through generously. But when Heller's electors hurried him into asking about wore pay, Sayers said, "I'm afraid you boys don't see the problem whole." George became sullen and remote; his work began to go sour. His own fireman called him a company man. When he asked about resigning from the Employee Plan, his superintendent said: "I'm overlooking this little trouble you had, but I expect you to stay on the committee...