Word: indistinct
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...berths by a lurch of the vessel. Half awake, the child could hear screams, shrieks, the anguished cries of the humans in great peril. Quickly his mother bundled him in her arms, rushed him through a fear-tormented mob to the deck. Stars had disappeared. On the foggy deck, indistinct figures ran about, cursing and praying for life preservers...
...green, yellow and red. Shoot off a pistol now and then; no doubt about it, you have caught the modern dream element. R. H. Sanger has the spirit of the trick when he writes,--"Hard squeaking sounds grew out of the distance. A door clanged metallically and an indistinct voice shouted 'Zzzzzzz-- Hall! -- -- -- Had he slept twenty years to find a new city grown up on the brown stone ashes of the old Borough." Apart from the dream introduction, there is nothing in his story of crooks, policemen, and the misguided poor, which could not appear fittingly in the more...
...considerable clique of Manhattan sages to whom Gilbert and Sullivan are the dual Messiahs of light musical entertainment, the values of the script and score were all-sufficient. To the casual wanderer seeking just a real good show, the miniature may seem in spots a trifle indistinct...
...When you spoke the other night, I was filled with admiration at your returning to the active struggle of political life despite your 80 years. But I did not understand your words, which seemed indistinct and far away...
Anna Christie. The fundamental difference in the technique of the screen and of the stage was never more pertinently displayed than in the two productions of Eugene O'Neill's drama. The legitimate version was a burning torch to show other playwrights their way along the indistinct path of progress. The motion picture is?simply another motion picture. The solution seems to lie in the psychological shortcomings of cinema narration. The mind is an inscrutable phenomenon at best. Pantomime does not suffice to render it transparent...