Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...distinctly below the level of the non-Orphean layers. They reveal a tendency, from which the rest of the material is happily free, that has been adversely commented on by divers other reviewers of divers other issues, and not without justice: a tendency to rather futile inanities which remain devoid of meaning to the untutored reader, and which do not justify their pointlessness by the saving graces of the ludicrous or the bizarro. Nor is the attempt to drag in the Vincent Club by its demurely protesting heels altogether successful; the end in view is laudable, but the achievement inadequate...
Talleyrand, one of the heroes of the play, is unreal and devoid of spirit. He is a badly dressed mannequin. Talleyrand is too complicated a character to be presented on the stage and Sacha Guitry makes him everything but what he was. The other characters are not any better...
...greatest menace to the drama is the motion picture", declared Mr. Eaton, "The country is getting for their entertainment something devoid of any appeal to their intelligence, which develops no serious though but is sated with surface and artificial emotionalism. The moving picture censorship cannot eradicate the underlying immorality of the silver sheet. It is just the 'movies'. Taking a different view-point, statistics show that children who regularly attend the movies invariably show less ability in their classroom work than those who don't make a regular practice of attending. They exhibit less power of concentration and often become...
...throughout, more artistic, more purposeful, and more intellectually stimulating, by awakening the public imagination and creating a desire for the best; just as our universities make for great things in art, science, and literature by presenting the achievements of the past, and the present, in an atmosphere and spirit devoid of commercialism...
...learning who herald their democracy and mutual esteem by holing like wolves. Let us be content that the shades of the Puritan will always flit silently among us to dampen slightly our fervency and moderate our joy of living. Those sober men of the old time were not devoid of passion and numbered among them many of the "good and the great", of whom we are still able--on occasion--lustily to sing. But with all our pride of tradition, we might still attempt to cultivate a slightly more conciliatory manner, to simulate a greater geniality, to handle ourselves...