Giraudoux
Americannoun
noun
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It opens in the best Giraudoux style of artificial high comedy.
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Giraudoux could savor its melancholy turns and bitter twists, its clash between innocence and worldliness, its sense of mankind's dreams of perfection and descent into reality.
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Under his low-keyed, meticulous direction, all the murdered men give subtle performances that would do credit to Giraudoux.
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Jean Giraudoux has fashioned a modern parable on the motivations of heroism and piety from the apocryphal story of the Jewess who glorified herself and saved her nation by destroying a pagan conqueror.
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Couching his pacifist message in Gallic irony, Giraudoux bandies about the question of whether the Trojans should pledge their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to hold onto Helen, the world's most beautiful woman.
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