Word: timidities
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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People without Passion. His reading also gave him a profound awareness of his people's plight. "I used to mull over the strange absence of real kindness in Negroes, how unstable was our tenderness, how lacking in genuine passion we were, how void of great hope, how timid our joy, how bare our traditions, how hollow our memories, how lacking we were in those intangible sentiments that bind man to man, and how shallow was even our despair. After I had learned other ways of life I used to brood upon the unconscious irony of those who felt that...
...timid soul describes lurking outside Liggett's to waylay friends and send them on forays into the interior. Other and bolder spirits relate tales of subtle ingenuity that do more striking credit to the Crimson name...
After her farmer-husband died, Mrs. Lessie Mills, of Fort Meade, Fla., took to babying the youngest of her five children. As a result, Jimmy Mills got to be known as "mama's pet," grew up so timid that he was afraid to go to bed at night unless his mother were close at hand...
...Domestic fireworks are provided by hard-drinking, softhearted Uncle Chris (Oscar Homolka); domestic dissonances by Mama's prying married sisters. The adolescent Katrin composes excruciating short stories about artists who go blind; baby sister Dagmar pines for a menagerie; demure Aunt Trina becomes the tremulous bride of a timid undertaker's assistant...
...London. As cinema, its prospects are unpredictable. Like the play, it suffers from naive lubberliness, reminiscent of Eugene O'Neill at his worst. But it also has some of the most stinging and salutary talk about prewar blindness, postwar prospects and their causes which has ever reached the timid screen. Its edged, cultivated production and its heartfelt acting-particularly that of brilliant Barbara Mullen-also help to turn the struggle of the protagonists into drama a fraction as searching and noble as the author intended...