Word: shallowing
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That Vanger's remarks are not intended as shallow consolation to freshmen who may be assigned there, is clear, for like several suites of sophomores, he has asked to remain there...
Historically there is only one possible victory for the Teuton, and that's against The Yellow Horde. On the other hand, this is indeed shallow praise, since the most trivial of European powers can spot the Yellow Horde both nefarious cunning and staggering odds, and still win handily. If the European power happens to be a troop of English bow-men who took a wrong turn at Vienna on the way to a Crusade, the slaughter is appalling. Studios have teetered on the rim of bankruptcy hiring enough extras to present realistically the number of Orientals slain under these circumstances...
...nice little show,' he can't say it that way in print. He has to come from the opening and say it's brilliant, it's wonderful." As a result, many a producer and director charges the critics with too often being "shallow" or "dull." "When a critic praises a play," says the Mirror's Coleman, "he is a wonderful critic . . . When he pans one, he is destructive, monstrous, unintelligent." Director Margaret Webster sums it up simply: "Bad notices will cook you. It's impossible to grin and bear...
...only time Ike seems to sag is when he is bored. When he is interested, his eyes sparkle and his mobile mouth twists to a hundred shadings of response-grins of varying intensity if he approves what he hears, a shallow 5 in disbelief, a wry turndown at the corners if he is disgusted. When the going is heavy he concentrates as he listens, sometimes fiddling absently with a cap on a front tooth with thumb and forefinger. Sometimes he picks up his heavy-rimmed spectacles and twirls them or chews the stems. Or he will play with...
...Japan, the boom tide was receding and the nation's economy was touching its keel in the shallow waters of inflation. For three years, the war in Korea had made work for millions of Japanese, spelling the difference between profit and bankruptcy for hundreds of Japanese firms. U.S. military purchases, and spending by U.N. soldiers on leave from Korea or stationed in Japan, more than made up for the annual deficit in Japan's foreign trade. In the big cities, fishtail Cadillacs, gaudy nightclubs, air-conditioned office buildings and huge geisha parties reflected the boom...