elbowroom
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The Night Is Young would probably be less dull if Edward Everett Horton and Charles Butterworth were given more elbowroom for their dependable buffooneries.
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Cast a Giant Shadow, another exercise in movie biography, may be filed as a case of mistaken identity: any resemblance to persons living or dead is sacrificed to make elbowroom for Hero Kirk Douglas.
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There is ever less elbowroom for the individual; submissive cooperation with increasingly remote and mysterious forces has become the order of the day.
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Below, the 325 offers a lot of elbowroom.
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All the same, I’m free to admit that I haven’t quite the elbowroom I need.”
From Stepsons of Light by Eugene Manlove Rhodes