Word: admitting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unfortunate, however, that these harbingers of the form divine are often led to sweeping denials of any suggestive power in music, for one must admit that a musical passage can convey general ideas like happiness and sorrow; above all, it can convey mood...
Sitting blithely on their scaffolds, they repulsed all comers with threatening paint brushes, refusing to admit their parts in the choral efforts. When the members of the crew were questioned as to the exact identity of their Caruses, they launched into a tirade of accusation and counter-accusation that degenerated into a colorful fight...
...occasionally has his off moments. In recent games he has made more sallies out from the net and has several times been caught in a position utterly ineffectual for stopping the puck. Remembering that the netminder has probably the most difficult job on the team, one would have to admit that Vint is one of Hodder's greatest assets...
...were as deftly and strongly constructed as by a master builder. When he had finished, Manhattan critics, groping for comparisons, could find only one similar instance in musical history: famed Infant Prodigy Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who started composing at the age of five. Even then, they had to admit that Prodigy Mathieu had beaten Prodigy Mozart's trifling early tinklings by a year...
...second wife) six months ago, her first task was to unravel the mysteries of a front-hall panel studded with 28 pushbuttons, representing the overflow of her husband's mechanical talents and his preoccupation with the front door. Push one button and the door opens long enough to admit one visitor, then slams shut. Push it twice and a party of six can slip in without getting nipped. For crowds, a second button holds the door open indefinitely. For salesmen, truculent folk and enemies, a special button flips the door impudently open, snaps it like a whip in their...