Sentences with phrase «into unctuousness»
And watch the incredible range and focus of Nixon's performance: the deliberate rhetorical emphases and repetitions; the flashes of steely anger and startling shifts into unctuousness / condescension when he seems like he could burst into inappropriate laugher or tears or flames; the (strategic?)
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It is a situation of not only institutionalized liturgical mediocrity, but also the incorporation into the celebration of Mass of the worst of American religious sentimentality — a conflation of forced folksiness with the unctuousness of the therapeutic jargon and mentality.