Word: woeful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...confused by the ramblings of dilettantes. Engineer Schafer's visions reveal a woeful lack of appreciation of basic mechanisms of central nervous system activity and can be immediately rejected. The only electrical activity that can control a man's mind arises as a consequence of the functional activity of another...
...groping his way towards the meaning of life while fate trips him up with distressing regularity. And like O'Neill and Dreiser, Australian-born Author White (Happy Valley, The Aunt's Story) more often drags than carries the reader with him through Stan's long and woeful saga...
Sensitively written, directed and acted, The Shrike is a depressing experience but will probably rank on many counts as one of the year's outstanding movies. Like a long-burning fuse, it mounts a harrowing suspense throughout. But with the woeful situation still sizzling grimly at the end, some may feel cheated of a relieving explosion...
Despite a few stirring moments and occasionally, beautiful imagery, Dryden's poem is generally silly and would be a woeful bore with anything but skillful reading. Director Peter Judd did not make the mistake of some productions and let the performers burlesque the text; rather, each recited the flowery lines as if they were the Twenty-Third Psalm, and the results were doubly hilarious. Among numerous principals, Nora Sayre transformed the mealy-mouthed Emmeline into a vivacious heroine, and Thomas Merriam as Merlin romped through the comic role of "a famous Inchanter...
...bread-bowis fly at woeful rate...