Garfield's visceral acting and Shaw and Rossen's forceful screenplay compel us, perhaps against our will, to accept Jacob Goff as an amoral, compassionless chiseler. |
In his bucolic scheme, every official is a dolt, every priest a fool or knave, every milkmaid diseased and unchaste, every villager either a boozer or a chiseler. |
Whether he is the cash-strapped redneck or the middle-class Los Angeleno, the husband in this play is essentially a chiseler, interested in money. |
No hard feelings, chiseler, but I sure would like to put a couple of slugs in your belly! |
As William Safire has suggested, that may have been the work of an absent-minded chiseler. |
The crested rat is now anatomically and behaviorally dependent on tree toxin for protection, and should Acokanthera go extinct, its little chiseler would soon follow. |