Word: unctuously
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...Dissent. At first the vast, unorganized army of commuters and travelers reacted with the numbed resignation of men & women who knew the 2Oth Century has its inescapable hazards. But soon the stirrings of dissent rose above the jumble of raspy music and unctuous plugs...
...final speaker, for Yale, was Jim Britt, whose unctuous tones are familiar to those who follow the fortunes of Boston's baseball teams. He told a dirty joke, told a dreadful and moving story about Joe McCarthy, and split an infinitive or three...
...radio commercials leave you nauseated? Does the unctuous-voiced announcer make your gorge rise? Are you growing allergic to sponsors...
...Oppenheimer household, it was possible to think something rude, harsh or improper, but never possible to say it. "My life as a child," Robert recalls, "did not prepare me in any way for the fact that there are cruel and bitter things." He remembers himself unfondly as "an unctuous, repulsively good little boy." The trouble, he thinks, was that his home offered him "no normal, healthy way to be a bastard...
...more shots of Dancer Kelly's graceful gymnastics. Since the musketeers never fight at odds of less than 20 to 1 (against them, of course) they have an uphill job unraveling the intrigues of the Queen of France (Angela Lansbury), the Duke of Buckingham (John Sutton) and the unctuous Richelieu (Vincent Price...