Word: overhanging
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...does it represent a malignant spirit which wants to drive them out of the valley? Whatever his concept of the black panther was, Clark doesn't carry it through. Therefore, one begins to suspect that the black cat is only literary device for effectively creating a ghostly mood to overhang the Bridges family's internal strife. I don't think that ws the original idea, but by leaving his purpose open to such speculation. Clark's otherwise sharp psychological study is dulled...
Short-tempered, sweating boatmen struggled to push their sampans and junks close to the fantail of the SS Kiangya, Chinese coastal steamer loading last week at Shanghai for Ningpo. From the cramped decks of the small boats on to the steamer's overhang clambered frantic, ticketless Shanghailanders trying to flee the frightened city. Others clogged the wharves, straining to catch tickets thrown them from portholes by friends already aboard...
Your review of Truman Capote's Other Voices Other Rooms [TIME, Jan. 26) concludes . . . : "For all his novel's gifted invention and imagery, the distasteful trappings of its homosexual theme overhang it like Spanish moss...
...born in New Orleans, owes something to Proust, something to Faulkner. In some ways he gets very close to childhood and to the profoundly sensational values of a child. But for all his novel's gifted invention and imagery, the distasteful trappings of its homosexual theme overhang it like Spanish moss...
Dunckel had visited Mindoro in 1930. Said he, with a characteristic nervous tic of the left eye: "It's like a saucer tilted toward the sea. High and difficult mountains shelter it. This is the dry season, but clouds generally overhang the mountains...