Word: hideously
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seldom fails to turn in a performance that is honorably beyond the line of movie duty. He is diligent, definitely if quietly talented, intelligent about his work; and he has an obvious capacity for study and for growth. Unless he succumbs to boredom, frustration, wealth, or the hideous difficulties of trying to be both a matinee idol and an honest artist, he is certain to become a thoroughly good actor...
England had experienced that hideous novelty. It was difficult not to chance on Joyce's wavelength when one was tuning in to the English stations, and there was an arresting quality about his voice which made it a sacrifice not to go on listening. ... It seemed as if one had better hearken and take warning, when he suggested that the destiny of the people he had left in England was death, and the destiny of his new masters in Germany life and conquest, and that, therefore, his listeners had better change sides and submit. This was often terrible...
...Dublin, they have tongues in their heads, and use them. Last week Art Critic Arthur Power, after looking at Jack Yeats's latest show, spoke up: "His figures look at their worst as though eaten by some hideous disease, or at their best as if they had had an unfortunate encounter with a bacon cutter. . . . His success is tempting young painters to copy his careless methods and so robbing them of all integrity...
...little Jones is browsing happily around in Astyparaean, a language no one has spoken for 50 centuries. There he encounters an old god, name of Zotz, who confers on him a weird and deadly power. Any insect, beast or man that Jones points at falls in a hideous faint; if he both points and says "Zotz!" the pointee drops horribly dead. Jones naively goes to Washington to offer this handy power to the Armed Forces. The rest of the book and war he spends being shuttlecocked from plyboard office to plyboard office, receiving but failing to respond to The Treatment...
...first British critics of the Nazis and their antiSemitism, Bishop Henson made many enemies with his scathing denunciations of the Oxford Group, Edward VIII's marriage, the U.S. ("a conspicuous illustration of the folly of neglecting the moral factor in life"), and the U.S.S.R. "with its hideous doctrine of mechanized humanity...