Word: worthier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...toward becoming one of those uppermiddle class brats, and his dog really does growl at him -- on the phone, yet. Twelve years he's been married; twelve years of his live shot to hell. That's why Jack Lemmon is able to make Brubaker so much worthier an object of sympathy (or empathy, depending on your age group) than Benjamin. Braddock stumbles through situations picking up the emotional cost with a sort or moral charge plate...
...another, far worthier than I, express what lies in this feeble soul. Let the Poet sing...
...sure you must realize that an original screenplay goes through any number of "improvements" at the hands of its producers (three in this case), directors (I counted at least five the time I sneaked on the set), and stars. Therefore, I pass the mantle of plagiarism on to far worthier "heads" than mine...
...should. In Looking Glass, the author is graduating from his genre, as he promised he would. Having had his say about espionage, a profession that does not transect the common lot, presumably Le Carré will henceforth apply his considerable competence to themes much nearer human experience-and much worthier of his own understanding...
Pusey said his generation--"despite what must surely even then have appeared to many an insufferable, supercilious attitude on our part"--was determined "to serve a deeper and worthier range of values than those which seemed to us to be held popularly in honor in our culture at that time...