Word: sharpish
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Mazo de la Roche's Jalna, novels are second-rate Forsyte Saga, gain nothing from being dramatized. As a picture of genteel rapacity, Whiteoaks does nothing in three acts it could not do better in one. Its sharpish characterizations never make up for its dragging plot. Actress Barrymore, looking like a cross between her Brother Lionel and the wolf dressed up as Red Riding Hood's grandmother, carries the whole play on her bent, centenarian back. Her expert performance gains in effect from the audience's kindly feeling that anything a 101-year-old woman says...
...profitable in the U. S. nowadays. But even scholars and gentlemen prefer to have their books sell. Wherefore Mr. Ernest Boyd, though he has called his new book Portraits, has not been indulging solely in profitless portraiture. He has also, and more often, been cocking a sharpish eye, flicking a sharpish pen and dashing off a row of caricatures as lively as ever you please...