Word: waywardly
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...variety of motorized misfortunes, ranging from an elementary flat tire to an epic collision. Oddly, most of the movie is so slow that it seems to have been enacted under water. Watching Hulot (Tati) trying to make his way through mazes of automobiles is a little like watching a wayward eel float through a fleet of submarines...
...proposed amendment also contradicted what many liberal Senators have been declaiming for years: that the U.S. should not meddle in other countries' affairs, that free and unrestricted trade is in the best interest of everyone. John Foster Dulles was excoriated for preaching the American gospel to wayward nations; whenever the U.S. intervened abroad, however gingerly, it was bound to suffer a certain amount of liberal rebuke. Yet here were liberals telling the Russians how to behave at home -although many of them would hardly have suggested a trade embargo of the Soviet Union because of similar treatment meted...
...still moves around with the same wolfish swagger that drugstore idolaters everywhere have tried to imitate. Yet there is a discernible difference in the Namath style. He now says things like "I pray every night when I go to bed -when I can." Like wayward Tom, Joe Willie has cheated the various nooses that could have slipped round his neck-by the simple expedient of growing...
...Moment, like its predecessors, showcases this latter aspect of Stewart's personality. It is here that he reveals the troubadour in him. The songs themselves revolve around the central theme. "True Blues" comes out of the familial problems dealt with in "Maggie May." It is the story of the wayward son returning home. Its music is more coherent, probably because it's actually the Faces! Musically, the song features the chording that Ronnie Wood's strongest talent, along with the fuzzy, percussive sound that is his most distinguishing feature. Wood is a very good guitarist, but, since...
...Director Gerald Freedman has done something that redeems even his most wayward players. He trusts the play, hews cleanly to the text, and the god of playwrights again performs the dramatic miracle that is forever Hamlet...