Word: unsaid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...best to be said of the main feature. "When Ladies Meet," is better left unsaid...
...second important phrase, "conscientiously opposed to war in any form," is more significant for what it leaves unsaid than for what it does say. Anyone who does not make any statement under this section, Section X on his questionnaire, is tacitly giving his conscientious approval to participation in "any form" of war, not only in defensive war. Form 47, to be sent in along with the questionnaire, will be the last chance for those who sincerely oppose war, or who believe only in defensive war, to make their full position known. A large enough body of determined opinion against...
...know it or not. Mostly they do not know it: Hollywood believes that music should be pure background. The European approach is different: its cinema music is supposed to compel the hearer's attention, to comment on the action of the film, to say things the characters leave unsaid. Briton Arthur Bliss's score for H. G. Wells's Things To Come has had concert performances (TIME, July 17). Some U. S. films, most of them documentary, have owed much to music of this sort. Virgil Thomson, long an expatriate, did wonders with a small orchestra...
...hero and heroine of Pelleas et Mélisande, Achille-Claude Debussy's 40-year-old opera (his only completed one) based on the play by Maurice Maeterlinck. Laid in "an unknown land" in a vaguely medieval time, Pelleas is elusive, dreamy, half-said, half-unsaid. Of all her troubles, Mélisande never says anything more complaining than: "Je ne suis pas heureuse" (I am not happy...
...village of Velrans likes sunlight; for its cabbages, the adjoining village of Longeverne likes rain. One day, centuries back, the peasant folk of the two villages set out for the same shrine to pray for their respective needs. Brisk words led to a brisk battle, and the prayers went unsaid. The feud is still being fought by 20th-century youngsters, even though the blonde schoolteacher (Claude May) at Velrans and the handsome mayor of Longeverne (Jean Murat) are more than willing to set an example in neighborly love. In the children's war, the most telling blow...