Word: soberness
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...Under its influence Hoöl dreams of its fateful past and of his own future. He loses it to the sea, spends a life in Sweden in venery, musicianship, the service of a fiend. This section is straight fable, some of it exquisite, some of it embarrassing, from sober Julian Green, as a Hamlet trying to play Falstaff...
Miss Hepburn spends the first part of the picture in a highly cold and sober condition; as such she is commendable as an actress but not too attractive as a person, which is what some of her less admiring critics would have us believe is her off-the-screen personality. Be this as it may, in the later sequences she manages to become so convincingly human, so persuasively drunk, so thoroughly funny, that with a paunch, a red nose, a hoarse voice, and certain unmentionables she could easily pass for W. C. Fields...
...manufacturing city of Limoges. At the age of 14 he started his artistic career in Paris painting pink and blue flowers on teacups. He graduated to painting fans and devotional pictures for missionaries. When he entered the studio of Marc Charles Gabriel Gleyre, he soon ran afoul of his sober-minded teacher. Said Gleyre: "You seem to take painting as fun." Agreed Renoir, "If painting were not fun to me I should certainly...
These were the sober words of a man who weighs his words, a man who sees the job of armament as clearly as any man and clearer than most: Donald Marr Nelson, Director of the Division of Purchases for the Office of Production Management...
Making memorable the occasion, Jack Barrymore, who was referred to by Variety last fortnight as "that daft sprig of catnip," had arrived at the studio cold sober and an hour early, for rehearsal...