Word: tenderizers
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...hounds, Lady Gay Spanker. Naturally the proceedings are hampered by a covey of long-winded subplotters, plus every other known theatrical device, all of which Eyre has the gall to retain only to dispose of them with affectionate derision. Grace's pretty speeches are greeted with yawns, a tender love scene is made ridiculous by farcical staging, and the whole cast takes turns shamelessly mugging in asides to the audience. As the faded beau, Donald Sinden transparently masks an egoist's will of steel with extravagant slapstick. He is matched by the Grace of Polly Adams, who makes...
...shield of Achilles, newly forged for the climactic duel with Hector, champion of the Trojans. One city is at war, its walls besieged like Troy's. The second city is at peace. In the margins of Fitzgerald's Iliad, this second city keeps peeping through, full of tender wives, proud fathers, grazing cattle, freshly plowed fields, fruitful vineyards and (see the comparative samples in box) boys and girls dancing...
Telemann's Sonata in D had a touchingly tender singing legato line. Tartini's Trumpet Concerto in D built to a concluding D above double C that had the audience cheering Andre as though he were Sutherland...
...plans of my future life, which does not seem to be cast on feminine lines, there should apparently be no place for love and such like tender and sentimental things...
...progressions, he was creative kin to Pound. In his bald and unashamed quoting of pop tunes, he can be said to have prophesied pop art. In the incredible tensions he built up by playing one key or rhythm against another, or in the way he could move dreamily from tender simplicity to the densest of instrumental textures, he was a forward-looking denizen of the age of anxiety. He was in short an original...