Word: unhuman
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...publicity he delighted in. His great age was his last great turn, which could hardly conceal an appalling loneliness. All his contemporaries were dead. His wife had gone. He recognized how poor his contacts with human beings were, now he was without intermediaries. He was, in a sense, unhuman. He depended on servants whom he hardly knew. He came close at times to that terrible condition of the old in contemporary England, who discover that there is no one to depend on and for whom the mere mechanics of living have become tragically difficult. At the illness of a servant...
Portrait in Black is a well-diagrammed job, with snatches of excitement and stretches of suspense. By all the rules, it should be more of a thrill than it is. One trouble lies in its unmagnetic atmosphere: the play is cold without being clammy, its people are stiff and unhuman without being sinister...
...able to unravel those neat, printed letters which somehow lessen the chaos of thought? Could it still supply the right word, the proper touch to sentences in this foreign atmosphere? Then suddenly, in the vast loneliness of unfamiliar surroundings, he remembered again how Freshmen feel. How awful and unhuman and unknowable college seems. How important and lightning and complicated a History 1 lecture can sound. How vast and impersonal and uninterested the Union can feel. How suave and learned and acquainted everyone else can seem when you are the only one in a New herd. The wind, the light...
...dramatic movements of abstract objects, accompanied by the music of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suite. In time to the music, a galaxy of rings swim into view, a pyramid intrudes, something resembling a piano keyboard rolls over & over, 50 balls pass deliberately across the screen. This unhuman cinema is, according to its author, the first entirely abstract film ever made and shown...
...this simple-hearted creature of nature puts to confusion the false logic of artificial society in a series of startlingly novel and highly entertaining situations, worked out with brilliant dialogue through three acts of continuously sustained interest. Mr. Faversham is singularly successful in sustaining the sense of the unhuman throughout the piece. It is an unusual play with an unusual amount of good-natured comedy...