Word: yawned
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...fallen on evil days. Glutted with ten-month old "revivals" like Our Man in Havana and larded at either end with saponaceous strains of Muzak, our once beloved theatre sounds like the Waldorf until the lights go off, and from there on out there's little to do but yawn and beat it as the projectionist trots out either second-rate foreign films like Rosemary or recently produced box-office certainties like Orfeu Negro...
Durrell imitates no one, and so does the author's inability, or unwillingness, to write narrative. This impressive school piece is ironically named, for in it the reader sees a powerful talent find its place in the sun, yawn with pleasure and stretch itself luxuriously...
...rights, it was time for one great national yawn. The big eye of television was dull and glazed after keeping the U.S. up late through two political conventions. The last balloon had drifted to the floor of convention hall, the last "never before" was but an echo, and the last "man who" sagged into contemplation. But the U.S. was wide-awake. The conventions of 1960 had shaken up the country...
...Baltimore, following a long commencement program at the Bryn Mawr School, Gordon F. Scheckells was rushed to the hospital with his jaw locked open from an excessively wide yawn...
...dangerous provocation. An act of perfidy!" cried the Soviet Union's Foreign Minister over and over, and more than one delegate at the big horseshoe table in the blue and gold Security Council chamber began to yawn. Even those disposed to deplore the U-2 overflight only chided mildly...