Word: unblushingness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Unblushing Tolerance
Life on a California prison farm was a humbling experience for Big Bill Tilden. During his 7½ months in jail (for "contributing to the delinquency of a minor") he worked in the kitchen scouring pots & pans, waited on table, and worked up to storekeeper ("a very responsible post"). But...
All My Sons is social criticism, but in moral terms; it clearly insists on individual responsibility. It also attacks the mind wholly by way of the emotions. And with its unblushing penchant for theater-tense atmosphere, patly timed revelations and whopping climaxes-it is a compelling rather than an entirely...
Housman could indulge in depths of unblushing self-pity; but he could also write the magnificent Be still, my soul, be still; the arms you bear are brittle. His gift for epigram and poetic conceit was too glib, but he could also write
Lustig promptly protested the News story. He insisted that the Treasury's probe had been requested by him to straighten out his books, that much of the cash owed the Treasury had already been paid. His explanation for the cash on hand revealed some of the tribulations of running...