Word: illusionality
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The exact causes of Bernard DeVoto's chronic exasperation eluded many people. Critic DeVoto claimed that it was his passion for straight thinking. Said he: "I have not objected to the use of abstractions but only to the use of abstractions in the illusion that they are bricks, girders...
Not up to Grand Illusion or La Kermesse Héroique, Daybreak, perhaps the last major product of a cinema industry that was as long on brains as it was short on budget, is a worthy swan song. It has the same distinguishing Gallic qualities of artistic shrewdness and spiritual...
"The outcome of this grim struggle will affect you almost as much as it will affect us. For if Hitler gets our fleet, or destroys it, the whole foundation on which the security of both our countries has rested for 120 years will have disappeared. . . . Let me be blunt. . From...
His argument: European bases, such as Gibraltar, are just as essential to Atlantic security as are ships. As long as they remain in the hands of powers that respect the Monroe Doctrine, "no hostile ships, except for a few submarines and raiders, could get into the Atlantic at all." Second...
I loved without illusion, knew the worst,