Word: unctuousness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...never have read a word he wrote. If they had, they would know that-victim of cliches though he is, Utopian and ambrosial though his visions become and offensive though it seems of him to announce his views as "heresy of the first order"?he is not an unctuous man. He is a clear-headed businessman and pretends to be nothing else; nothing mystical, nothing superior to others...
Henry I. A delegation of rich mandarins and erstwhile potent nobles, their silken garments rustling, their smiles unctuous, sought audience last week with Super-Tuchun Wu Pei-fu, co-conqueror of Peking with Super-Tuchun Chang...
...full curving lips closed with an unctuous suction about his thin, bloodless muzzle. Slowly, cautiously his tongue pressed a wadded spitball into her mouth...
...demonstrate its actuality in a finite universe; all shrewd, unassailable Axioms, Methods, Customs, Creative Intellects, magazine articles and learned treatises on Education; all economic theory, which must presuppose an unreal Economic Man to operate; all Law, which is based upon fictitious "rights" and "justice"; all peace proposals, unctuous or bellicose; all "international thought...
...dramatic pigeonhole. The prologue, which is weird melodrama, takes the kinks out of the audience's spines and leaves everyone grasping the plush cloak-hanger ropes. In the lantern-lit interior of an empty refrigerator car ride four characters, the weeds of humanity's garden, playing poker--an unctuous card-sharping deacon, an Italian escaped convict, a thug, and a young hobo, who has had a conventional background. As the freight pulls out of a middle Western town, a girl disguised as a boy hops it. The crowd, not deceived, cuts the deck for her. The deacon wins. Smash goes...