Word: graceless
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...full up now-only eight standing inside-I can't take any more,' chants the bus conductor, with all the complacency of a Calvinist separating the few elect from the multitudes of the damned...Justice and discipline are perhaps producing a new civility, hard, graceless and colorless, but safe...
...very absence of color, the refusal to jump to conclusions, and the blunt, graceless prose, have the persuasiveness of a courtroom exhibit. What Freeman once said of Robert E. Lee holds good for his approach to George Washington: "I know where Lee was and what he did every minute of the Civil War, but I wouldn't dare presume what he was thinking...
Emil Zatopek is about as graceless as an athlete can be: he runs something like an upright turtle. Emil is a sawed-off lieutenant from the Czechoslovakian army. In London last week, in the first day of competition at the XIVth Olympiad, he squared off against the Finns for the exhausting 10,000-meter race (a little over six miles...
...thin, harried George Allen, the ex-ambassador to Iran who took over the Voice after the silly broadcasts had been made, admitted the State Department's failure to monitor its own broadcasts. NBC, which conceded its own negligence, had already fired those responsible for the scripts. The whole graceless affair was a prime example of how Congress, in an election year, can hold itself at arm's length and punch its own nose. For Congress had 1) given the Voice so little money that it was unable to keep the frog out of its throat; 2) insisted that...
...Christians are . . . frequently guilty of a graceless and self-righteous legalism, lacking in charity toward those who have been worsted by the tumult of their own passions. There is nothing in the present situation to encourage complacency among those of us who call ourselves Christian. Yet we do have at least a tenuous hold upon a dimension of existence which is not touched in this Report . . . The modern naturalism which seeks to solve the problems of man's sexual life by treating him as an animal, only slightly more complex than other brutes, represents a therapy which implies...