Word: overdoing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...revel of language, a sunburst of images. Red wine is "volcano's blood." The evening air is "cool as the breath from the heart of a melon." A sunset in Rhodes becomes a conflagration. This is the kind of thing Durrell does so well that he tends to overdo it. But, periodically, he lifts imagery to insight. Many have written of the preternatural brilliance and clarity of the Greek light, but Durrell sensitively isolates its effect when he calls Greece not a country but a living eye: "The traveler in this land could not record. It was rather...
Since 1956, 13 Grand Prix drivers have been killed, and Moss himself admits to fear: "In a race, it's a matter of inches. If you overdo it, you lose control of the car. Once you know you have lost control -that the car can do what it wants and not what you want it to do-it's a very frightening situation." But it is that sort of danger that Moss loves best. "Driving a racing car," he says, "is something I think I'll enjoy for as long as I live." Then he adds: "However...
Later Billy gave a reporter some of his own frank thinking about his mission. "When people come forward from small congregations to a mass meeting, it means something in their lives. They say 'This is the church.' Sometimes the local people overdo the publicity, and sometimes they underdo it. I believe, however, that in some countries the church should make use of the modern methods that have been used to sell products." Questioned as to the "luxury accommodations" enjoyed by him and his team, Billy replied: "We stay where we can get good food and water to keep...