Word: unison
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...grim, radical dogma that swept Britain after World War I. Youth today is not so much flaming to be free as burning to acquire discipline. It was Wyndham Lewis' ferocious hatred of what he called "emotionally excited, closely-packed, heavily-standardized mass-units acting in a blond ecstatic unison" that caused his unpopularity in the '305. although he himself acted in unison of a sort with the Hitler regime-but only for a very brief spell...
...pIayer orchestra and in the singers' melodic lines. But it provided a Lucullan feast of varying moods, from the poignant ending of the courtesan's part ("For me, too, prodigious Rome/ Could not protect from prodigious Rome") to the heartbreaking aria of the bereaved fishwife. The fine unison chorus at the end was as rousing as a latter-day Verdi's, and the pure major triad that sang out as the curtain fell was a real shocker...
...point during his long inquisition before the Diet, 76-year-old Shigeru Yoshida, Premier of Japan for seven years, began to defend himself, but lost his way through his notes. "Ah ... ah ... ah," he mumbled, shuffling his papers. "Ah ... ah ... ah," his enemies mimicked him in pitiless unison...
...somebody shouted. The speaker displayed a Miss Mary Collins, the ticket seller, and added, "Wouldn't it be worth it to stand if you couldn't get a seat?" The audience affirmed in unison again...
...elegant, childless wife-Author Taylor finds unpredictable perceptions. The prose is studded with jeweled vignettes, e.g., the school matron: "As smooth as minnows were Mrs. Lancaster's phrases of welcome; she had soothed so many mothers, mothered so many boys. Her words swam all one way in unison, but her heart never moved." Several of the short stories are little more than finger exercises. But they are done by fingers as quick and sure as any in the business...