Word: utterable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...giving a fine performance when we dropped in to see him a second time Saturday. His portrayal of the domineering father whose failure in marriage has convinced him of its futility for his children, comes through his facial expression to a large extent. No one can watch those lips utter "Do you hear me" without being impressed by their sensual cruelty. They contain the story of sexual repression which has asserted itself in a possessive love of his daughter, Elizabeth, which amounts almost to sadism...
...giving a fine performance when we dropped in to see him a second time Saturday. His portrayal of the domineering father whose failure in marriage has convinced him of its futility for his children, comes through his facial expression to a large extent. No one can watch those lips utter "Do you hear me" without being impressed by their sensual cruelty. They contain the story of sexual repression which has asserted itself in a possessive love of his daughter, Elizabeth, which amounts almost to sadism...
Aside from the fact that your prospectus of Professor Morison's course in American Colonial History showed an utter ignorance of what it pretended to discuss, the mendacity of the reviewer approached outright maliciousness. If not libelous to the word, the writer's phrasing ill-concealed an uncritical dislike...
...June he wrote thus of Adolf Hitler, a personal acquaintance : "It has seemed to me at times that there is a kinship between him and Ignatius Loyola. One finds in both men the same complete faith in their mission, the same readiness and determination to exercise their power with utter ruthlessness and brutality in order to carry out that mission. No consideration of personal profit or glory ever entered Loyola's mind, and I believe the same can be said of Hitler." Such an expression was bound to anger devout Catholics who, for 400 years, have been obliged to refute...
...frightened Ahmed Shah fled to the fleshpots of Paris. Two years later Riza Pahlevi, by that time Premier, was elected by the Majlis to be Shah and King of Kings with "full powers" which make him in fact independent of the Majlis. Always domineering, he now became the utter autocrat and one day even kicked his first-born and beloved son Crown Prince Shapur Mohammed Riza into the palace pond for a trifling offense...