Word: joyouse
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...more advanced sex-education classes is straightforward and clinical, with the result that parents are sometimes staggered by breakfast-table mentions of seminal emissions or clitoral excitation. However startling, such language is a vast improvement over the flights of icky imagery about the "mystery of growth" and the "joyous miracle of motherhood" that can still be heard from time to time...
...films of Jean Renoir, a protagonist moves through episodic scenes, his actions steadily becoming a means of intense personal expression. In climactic scenes, characters realize the nature of their commitment to life and are able to voice it: a joyous fusion of purpose and articulation. At the end of This Land Is Mine (1943), the schoolmaster (Charles Laughton) overcomes his cowardice, refuses to collaborate with the Nazis that have occupied his country, and expresses his conviction in a long speech to the townspeople. As he speaks, the light from the window gives him a presence he had lacked before...
...dramatic electricity in a finger snap to have prevented the Great Power Blackout of 1965. Her voice is a husky cousin to Marlene Dietrich's, but even amplification does not always make it audible. The character she plays, a kind of ouzo-and-sympathy doxy, is unsalvageable since joyous sweet-souled prostitutes are about as believable nowadays as jolly...
...legislature greeted Lurleen's-or George's-speech with joyous Rebel whoops and will doubtless give her whatever she requests, including an expanded state police force. Thus Alabama may well be inviting a confrontation between federal and state authority, comparable to those at Little Rock and Oxford, Miss. The Wallaces, with George's third-party presidential candidacy firmly in mind, clearly would like nothing better...
...Russian dancers performed in Paris from 1895 to 1909, he relished the contrast between the unbridled brilliance of their national costume and their rigorous enmeshment in the dance, using the full richness of his palette to capture the barbaric richness of the dancers' native dress and the joyous swirl of their steps. And, as Degas mastered the art of portraying dancers, he eventually developed a prickly affection for them. "There's something artificial even about my heart," he confessed. "The dancers have sewn it up in a bag made of pink satin, rather faded pink satin, like their...