Word: unconvincingness
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Mark Roskill's poem about Hadrian is straightforward but unconvincing. Its impact depends upon the reading of two words, "resurrect," and "facile," words which the poetic context does not define for me. As a result, the poem is, for me, an amusement.
The dispute between the nation's press and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles over his refusal to let American newsmen go to Red China flared up anew. Going beyond his original argument-an unconvincing one-that the U.S. would not be able to protect reporters behind the Bamboo...
Under the surprisingly unimaginative direction of Anatole Litvak the film plays a sad game of Hollywood tag with a Romanoff myth. Ingrid Bergman, the poor heroine, is taken in tow by a group of schemers (led by Yul Brynner) who want her to be recognized as Anastasia only in order...
Two to Remember. On foreign aid, the 84th was unconvinced and unconvincing: last week it authorized the spending of $4 billion, some $900 million less than the Administration had originally thought necessary. On domestic legislation, the Congress was sometimes more generous than the Administration thought wise: it expanded the 21...
The few "virtuous" parts of Cangaceiro, however, are slightly awful--hero and heroine participate in a series of love scenes which are pretty much the limit in cowboy-jungle romance. They are also not very brief. The Tarzan type, Teodoro, comes out with some dialogue which, even in Portuguese, cannot...