Word: tepidity
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...prison life burnishes them to saintliness, and they become Dostoevsky's "holy fools of God." A few others become the minions of hell and savage their brothers for a bread crumb. But the bulk of men remain the same, irretrievably wedded to their petty vices and their tepid virtues. For them, the prison camp is a change in milieu, not a change in character. Such is the breadth and depth of Solzhenitsyn's vision that he chooses to be the voice of these voiceless and mediocre many. Without ever resorting to formal religious terminology, he says in effect...
...small man, just over five feet, and so fat that when he knelt to a lady she had to summon a servant to hoist him to his feet. Rather fussily elegant in his dress-flowered velvet suit, lots of ruffles, snuffbox to flutter over-Gibbon exuded a tepid blandness. Joshua Reynolds painted a deadly portrait of him. His profile is distinctly not that of a Roman emperor. He has the eyes of a maiden aunt, a tiny Cupid's mouth, and a second chin far more impressive than the first. Even his hands manage to look pudgily repressed...
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE. The basic plot of this tepid little comedy is an old chestnut, dropping with a slightly pathetic spin: Blind Boy meets Girl, Blind Boy loses Girl, Blind Boy gets Girl. Playwright Leonard Gershe is only sporadically funny and never uniquely himself but simply a one-man situation-and-gag file...
BUTTERFLIES ARE FREE. The basic plot of this tepid little comedy is an old chestnut, dropping with a slightly pathetic spin: Blind Boy meets Girl, Blind Boy loses Girl, Blind Boy gets Girl. Playwright Leonard Gershe is only sporadically funny and never uniquely himself, but simply a one-man situation-and-gag file...
...submit to this true-or-false test by attending the tepid little Broadway comedy called Butterflies Are Free. Playwright Leonard Gershe's basic plot is an old chestnut, dropping with a slightly pathetic spin: Blind Boy meets Girl, Blind Boy loses Girl, Blind Boy gets Girl...