Word: waywardly
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...shrill, seriocomic strumpet is written and played in a manner guaranteed to subdue passion in any red-blooded youth. Most of the time, however, the characters in Leather Boys seem stronger than the pat fiction imposed upon them. In the hands of Director Furie and his exuberantly wayward cast, their lives unreel with a moment-to-moment immediacy that is funny, fascinating and human...
Emerson called him "the greatest writer who ever lived." Claudel considered him a "great solemn ass." Jung pronounced him "a prophet." Evelyn Waugh dismissed him as a "wayward dabbler in philosophy." Valery said he was "one of the luckiest throws that fate has ever allowed the human race to make...
...where the owner will be, and incoming calls are transferred there. Lawyer Melvin Belli has one, switches early-morning calls to the hamburger stand where he breakfasts. And since the call is transferred without the caller's being any the wiser, the device should be a boon to wayward husbands or junior executives who have slipped out for a quick pick...
When the law forces her wayward illegitimate son to enroll at a school for boys, Liz storms off to the beach to enjoy what's left of freedom. Burton, as the Rev. Mr. Hewitt, follows her, after carefully removing his clerical collar. She is a wild thing who tends wounded birds or casually poses nude-hands to bosom, in deference to a man of the cloth-for a sculptor...
...decision, answered Reporter Bert Quint, brought back "the whole specter of Yankee imperialism in Latin America. It was a decision that is making a lot of Latin Americans hate us." Then Kuralt and Quint turned for guidance to Eric Sevareid, CBS National Correspondent. And like a fatherly professor reproving wayward journalism students, Sevareid offered some corrections: "The specter of American gunboat diplomacy, I would suggest, is a much more outworn specter than the very present one of Communism in this hemisphere. I don't see frankly how any President of the United States...