Word: vigor
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Lady Macbeth, too, remains something of an enigma. Barbara Forester plays the part with a good deal of vigor and violence, both of which are appropriate in spots, but not throughout. Her malice and ambition could be more impressive if they were less blatant, and her occasional shrewishness obscures understanding of her subtly poisonous influence upon her husband...
...industry and vigor made an immense paraphrase of the remark of another Tory Englishman. Samuel Johnson, who said that every man thinks meanly of himself for not having worn a red coat. But red coats were out in 1914. War meant mud, barbed wire and lice. Kipling's only son John was killed fighting with the Irish Guards in the battle of Loos. Rudyard Kipling got letters from all the world, and some exulted in the mean thought that the laureate of war had got his comeuppance. As a member of the Imperial War Graves Commission, he promoted...
...equipped surroundings near where one Nicholas Eisenhower, an ancestor of the President, established a farm in 1753, and one Captain Dwight Eisenhower commanded a World War I tank unit at Camp Colt, the President this week settled down to bringing himself and his Government back to the condition of vigor and motion in which he left for Denver long weeks...
This hope for wider intellectual leadership permeates all of Yale's projects under Griswold and is what gives them more than just a defensive tone. But for all their vigor, Yale's building projects in the college would ultimately mean little without plans to make good use of the buildings...
...copy of Kind Hearts and Coronets. Yet Fernandel is very French and very funny. Besides, this movie has a distinctly French twist--its emphasis on procreation. It is, as the village mayor says of an especially prolific crop of Saint Forget grandchildren, "a tribute to the Saint Forget vigor and the bounty of our native soil...