Word: pleasingness
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Crosby is outstanding because his highly literate humour makes the sitting duck a worthwhile prey. Pleasing the victims of radio and T.V. with far more than the public expression of their private irritation, Crosby budgeons the asinine with genuine artistry. He attacks script cliches with quiet exasperation, and the patently...
Out of this shambles of what might have been genuine liberality, however, several happy features still appear. For one thing, the Housemasters may stretch parietal rules in whatever direction they wish, and many have already shown willingness to take advantage of this. Further, the seven to eleven extension, even it...
John Piper is now probably Britain's leading romantic realist, but he has come to this eminence the long way round. Growing up in London and at Epsom College, he dabbled in archaeology, played the piano in an amateur dance band, wrote poetry and took art courses. He was...
The troupe's opening bill was a pleasing double one: Marivaux's Les Fausses Confidences (The False Secrets) rattled off in French; and a pantomime, Baptiste, requiring no French at all. A mannered 18th-century mixup, Les Fausses Confidences was all ambitious mothers and wily servants, dissembling lovers...
In Rose and Crown, O'Casey tries to straighten out this snarl, and his means are neither new nor pleasing. He describes the great houses in detail-the Sheraton, the Chippendale, the mother-of-pearl, the ebony, the sparkle of diamonds on "a white and saucy breast." It was...