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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- Clift, Montgomery 1920-1966. American actor known for his performances in Red River (1948), From Here to Eternity (1953), and Judgment at Nuremberg (1961).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A variant of cleft.
- To split.
- n. A cliff.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. obsolete A cliff.
- n. obsolete A cleft of crack; a narrow opening.
- n. obsolete The fork of the legs; the crotch.
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“So hard, so dangerous, that it's impolitic for Kerry to say it, but if Clift is writing it, you know millions of folks are thinking it.”
“The Clift was a particularly appropriate venue because it's a member of the Morgans Hotel Group, which is deploying Google Apps to its 1,750 employees.”
“Clift which is also perpendicular; between this abrupt extremity of the ledge of rocks and the perpendicular bluff the whole body of water passes with incredible swiftness. immediately at the cascade the river is about 300 yds. wide; about ninty or a hundred yards of this next the Lard. bluff is a smoth even sheet of water falling over a precipice of at least eighty feet, the remaining part of about 200 yards on my right formes the grandest sight I ever beheld, the hight of the fall is the same of the other but the irregular and somewhat projecting rocks below receives the water in it's passage down and brakes it into a perfect white foam which assumes”
“The big lift Montgomery Clift vintage movie poster”
“Actually Pattinson is more of a combination of Montgomery Clift and James Dean.”
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“Though the original Broadway production which starred Tallulah Bankhead and Montgomery Clift was a hit, subsequent revivals have been rare, and the past two New York revivals, in 1986 and 1998, received mixed notices.”
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“Bosworth argues convincingly that it was Clift, even more than Marlon Brando, who personified the postwar leading man: anxious, vulnerable, dislocated.”
“Like Charlie Parker, Montgomery Clift, Judy Garland and Lenny Bruce before him, his brilliance as an artist would be overshadowed by severe, psychological torment and an unexplainable desire for self-destruction.”
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“We ended the night in our beautiful hotel, the Clift, sitting in the stark lobby and flirting with everyone that passed through.”
“Two years later, Borgnine landed the role of a lifetime in From Here to Eternity, opposite A-list actors Montgomery Clift, Frank Sinatra, Deborah Kerr, and Burt Lancaster.”
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