Word: timidation
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...coruscating conversations, the implications of their grotesque actions and their wilder words, does Christina Stead's originality shine. Readers who know where they are with the Saturday Evening Post will get little or nothing out of The Beauties and Furies. Its trolls and hobgoblins may show less timid readers a thing or two not visible except by moonlight...
...with appropriate mystery their evils to perform. There is a mysterious old tower which houses, one is cryptically informed, some of the weirdest specimens of taxidermical skill, a dilapidated old boat landing where sport the largest and most vicious crabs imaginable and numerous other terrible appurtenances to frighten the timid and delight the morbid...
...Boake Carter currently the most popular of Radio's news commentators, with a rating of 12.6 by the Crossley Survey* he is also far & away the most daring. His freedom to express any partisan opinion that pops into his curly head is the wonder of a notoriously timid industry. However, while Carter's crusty editorializing delights thousands of listeners, it chagrins thousands more, keeps him in a perpetual controversial stew...
Original it is. It is daring only by contrast with Hollywood's timid preference for doing, insofar as possible, only what has been done before. Actually, nothing interests people more than matters which do not concern them. Things to Come is therefore magnificent entertainment and a tribute to the sound showmanship that has made Producer Korda the kingpin in England's booming cinema industry...
...scribble notes for their forthcoming biographies (they all know Marius is dying), try to maneuver the sick man into tête-à-tête walks. Lewis, "deeply insincere," has more than one earmark of J. Middleton Murry, one of Lawrence's biographers. Others are Robert, a timid soul; his wife Hilda, who married him because Marius suggested it but who nurses a platonic passion for the Master; Mark, a bully; Johnny, a poet who is not a gentleman and is very self-conscious about it. Marius' bovine wife, Helga, feeds them all, pays little attention...