Word: sullens
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...that humanity in all its ordinariness and contrariness is more corrosive to the totalitarianism ideal than heroism. There is too much to control. Not even the technology of repression can keep up with all the private wants and longings that move people to everything from religious faith to sullen cynicism...
...tolerate each other, they are three shaggy humans looking for a way out, and they communicate their anxiety through a kind of existential slapstick: Godot meets the Three Stooges. If you can get into the rhythms of Waits' disk-jockey patter, Benigni's fractured English and Lurie's sullen explosions, you may find Down by Law mildly ingratiating. Otherwise you will sympathize with the jailbirds as they mark off the days in their cell. The markings, of course, are gorgeous: Chinese calligraphy, bayou-style...
...return, if briefly, to the more familiar realm of Twilight Zone twists in 'dentity Crisis. Jane (Marjorie Ingall) has a problem. She is a sane person in an insane world. Fortunately, psychotherapy has a cure. Everybody plays insanity soberly and satisfactorily straight in this one. And Jane's sullen paranoia is relatively refreshing, even if the play's conclusion is somewhat unsatisfactory...
...Jaruzelski seems to fear Solidarity as much as he does foreign condemnation -- or more. It was Solidarity's emergence as a rival to the Communist hierarchy that led to the imposition of martial law in December 1981 and a ban on union activity. By its sullen response to Solidarity's latest initiative, the government showed anew that the official party line is simply not open to question...
...summer, taking a minor role in an amateur production of The Taming of the Shrew, he disported himself so well -- and, not incidentally, sold out the hall every night -- that this year he was asked back to star in The Magistrate, a Victorian farce. Edward manfully summons up the sullen shallowness of a 19-year-old rogue being passed off as a 14-year-old schoolboy, then trips up, literally ; and figuratively, during a hilarious escape scene. Theatrical fate, though, can be cruel: a popular local comedian was packing them in last week in the same role at nearby Aberdeen...