Word: archness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...criticize Nabokov's lectures on literature than his novels. His fiction is complex and elusive, sometimes maddeningly obscure. The prose is lush and polychromatic, the plots ingenious. He fashions the most exquisite narrative structures out of the most fragile allusions and symbolic patterns, and ices it all with an arch sense of humor. His late works, such as Ada, hint at layers of meaning that will keep scholars guessing for decades. His works will probably last: Lolita is already available in an annotated critical edition. Still, there is something missing in all of Nabokov's work. His starchy aestheticism comes...
...piece develops, a furioso section for the ensemble is followed by electronic responses from the soloists until the entire orchestra begins to fragment, a violin jutting out here, a trombone blasting there. Répons gradually increases in rhythmic complexity as held notes in the brass arch over the busily insistent sound beneath. The impression is of the turning of a gigantic wheel in space. The piece ends quietly on a stationary but disquieted chord; rest is achieved at last, but not peace...
...maybe you imagine the notorious antics of arch villains like Gorgeous George, the Amazing Gunga and Killer Kowalski. Hey, you've been watching too much late night t.v., and you've got wrestling all wrong...
...valley know from experience that some folks have a native wildness that is not to be trifled with. Even smiling, gracious Belle has a measure of congenital menace. Says her cousin Dutch: "I believe if you got her down to business, she would kill you." Her brother Arch, Dutch adds, "did kill two or three fellas...
...boat was obviously faster and when I tried to pass the coxswain wouldn't give way." She added, "I probably lost several seconds trying to steer around, and just when I thought I could pass him we reached the Anderson Bridge which has a sharp turn and a narrow arch. So I sort of sent him into the bridge...