Word: tamely
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Nobody has dreamed of building a better airship since the Hindenburg exploded in 1937, but aeronautics engineer Graham Dorrington has just that obsession. That makes him an ideal subject for one of director Werner Herzog's luminous studies of the peril that attends man's quest to tame nature--the peril but also the ecstasy. When Dorrington finally gets the airship to fly, it's one of the most spiritually buoyant scenes in recent cinema...
...compiling our Ten Best lists. That we both chose Herzog documentaries were not conspiracy but coincidence - and, I think, a fitting tribute to a filmmaker of the purest craft, and of his acute understanding that the most thrilling adventures are those that illuminate man?s quest both to tame nature and become one with...
...winter because of the curse of the evil queen, the White Witch (Tilda Swinton). The children, under the guidance of a messianic lion, Aslan (voiced by Liam Neeson), must fulfill an ancient prophecy: Defeat the Witch and free Narnia. Disney tries so hard to add peril to an otherwise tame children’s story—Lewis’s strengths were in his gentle bedtime story-like tone, wondrous creatures and espousal of Christian doctrine, not his action narrative. From the expository scenes of World War II London air raids to the “Alexander Nevsky?...
...often seems that loud is every child's middle name, but this lovely book should tame the rowdiest tyke by dwelling on sound, not noise. The blue house is a summer place that, after the season ends and the suitcases bang closed and the car doors slam shut, falls silent. Or does it? Banks' poetic text and Hallensleben's richly impastoed paintings guide us through the deserted rooms, evoking the dripping of a kitchen faucet, the buckling and crackling of frost on the windows, the ruffling of a cat shaking snowflakes from its fur, even the silence of a bird...
...When political activism does occur on campus it is wishy-washy and bland. Even the most radical elements of the student body, such as the Student Labor Action Movement (SLAM), are surprisingly tame by historical standards. Instead of appealing to socialist notions of equality in their quest for higher wages, they couched their stance in terms of cost of living and prevailing wage rates. And in lieu of occupying Mass. Hall, they sent workers’ children to Larry Summers’ house on Halloween to ask for money for their families—only to realize that...