Word: traites
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...days later he wrote, "I don't like the Trait in his character, his Gaiety," and cautioned his wife that if Tyler retained "a Trait of Frivolity or dissapation," the romance should be terminated. Mrs. Adam's approval of the attachment was less tentative, and eventually she had mellowed her husband's attitude towards Tyler to the point where, when the young man formally requested "the sanction of your appropation to my addresses," Adams replied...
...even started life with a name that sounds like a P. G. Wodehouse character: Thomas Terry Hoar-Stevens. He went to the right schools, but somehow turned out wrong. His trouble was that he was a compulsive clown, a tendency he blames on his eccentric dental structure, a hereditary trait with the Hoar-Stevenses. He had little thought of working until he was 27, since "my father bought my clothes and women and things." But then a pal persuaded him to take a crack at the films...
...feel guilty by having to be somebody besides a housewife. These girls are in school, and they're the queens of the world. Then they get married, and they have problems, and they say it's not fair. Self-pity is the most common but the meanest trait there is. Of course, as a friend of mine says, if you don't pity yourself, who will...
...soon, the sham preacher helps a cattle rustler escape from jail. Persuaded to hide the hot-blooded crook in her Pullman berth, Catherine (Jane Fonda) begins to reveal a flair for lawlessness and disorder that turns out to be her most endearing trait. After she blows into Wolf City at gale force, her father is murdered for his land by a hired gunfighter (Lee Marvin). Catherine becomes "Cat," an outlaw queen who scourges the countryside assisted by the amorous rustler, his prayerful accomplice, a Beatle-thatched Indian, and a drunken, generally unemployable gunfighter she can call her own (Lee Marvin...
...Conservatoire, and her mother, after 24 difficult years in France, had returned to England with Jeanne's sister, Michelle. The separation tugged Jeanne in opposite directions, as indeed it still does: though she sympathizes with her mother, she is her father's child. The only English trait Moreau admits to is a thirst for tea with milk and sugar -as many as a dozen cups a day. "If I am ever killed," she says, "the police will find nothing but my identity papers and a small pool...