Sentences with phrase «general meanness»

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Throwing in a stream of one - liners and sight gags to see what sticks, littered with genuine attempts to cultivate a romance, is also a lacklustre technique that doesn't hide the feature's wisecrack - laden dialogue or general sense of meanness.

And surely the meanness and the mischief of prying into a man's confidential consultations with his legal adviser, the general evil of infusing reserve and dissimulation, easiness, and suspicion and fear, into those communications which must take place, and which, unless in a condition of perfect security, must take place uselessly or worse, are too great a price to pay for truth itself.»