Word: conveyances
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cinemactress Colbert, moving waxy and beautifully gowned through a series of handsome sets, manages to convey the idea that she cannot quite pierce the Wellesian disguise of beard, limp and heavy Teutonic accent. Welles himself, posing as an Austrian scientist, does a far more skillful job of characterization than the creaky plot and prevailing platitudes warrant...
Never would the language of headlines -"Battle," "Blast," "Bevin Denounces" -convey their meaning and quality. What happened there was a compound of many things...
...Countries, France. All of them bore, like a leper's bell, the one ineffaceable possession left them by their ordeal-the mood of quiet desperation, quiet, because its very existence threatened the peace of mind of those who still felt secure; quiet, because who can really convey an experience to one who has not suffered it before...
...come for ginmill stuff and had been served something more like a bad-year champagne. The Duke once more dragged out such pretentious symphonic items as Black, Brown and Beige (listed as "a musical parallel to the history of the American Negro"); Perfume Suite ("each section . . . tries to convey the essence of a particular fragrance"). Until late in the evening, when the band got back to being itself on easy-riding bounce tunes, the whole thing sounded more like Andre Kostelanetz than a night in Harlem. Four sessions in Carnegie Hall had had an unmistakably mopey, not to say arty...
Trollope knew that even in their most idealistic moments the best men and women could be self-seeking - not merely be cause they were naturally ambitious, but because ambition was demanded by the conventions. Perhaps this is what he meant to convey to the lady who, on seeing him devour a huge meal, remarked : "You seem to have a very good appetite, Mr. Trol lope!" "None at all, madam," he replied, "but, thank God, I am very greedy...