Word: artlessly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even the entirely godless-provided they are not entirely artless-know that Christmas began with an angel. The soaring radiance of medieval and Renaissance art turned again and again to the Annunciation and the astonishing moment when Gabriel first appeared to Mary with the slightly scandalous news that she was about to become the mother of Christ. Multiplied and modified by commerce, these and kindred images -of angels flying, angels tootling on long trumpets, angels simply adoring -have become as much a part of worldly Christmas as street-corner Santas. And when the New Year comes, they seem as swiftly...
Strong's writing is so artless it could make any other writer nervous. I feel like a lead-footed groundling watching a tightrope-walker without a net. But more important than the sheer virtuosity is the fact that the writing captures a true feeling and recalls a real time...
Robert Pharr's prose often clumps along awkwardly, and his construction sometimes creaks. His art is at its apparently artless best when he simply shows the reader the teeming, sensual, violent ghetto, letting the vernacular of the streets crackle through his pages...
...month of Crisis at Harvard, however, Calkins has been hard to miss. Taking up the gap left by President Pusey's artless press releases in the first few days of the strike, Calkins has seemingly turned himself into a one-man public-relations agency for the Harvard Administration...
Only an eccentric poet like Roy Campbell, the clerical reactionary, has attempted satire in formal rhymed Popian couplets, and perhaps only W. H. Auden has succeeded in didactic eloquence within a variety of formal, traditional stanzas. Doubtless, the exact antipode of Pope's Augustan order would be the artless, extemporaneous effusions that issue from the flower children of the modern coffee house-quite a different breed from an 18th century coffee house. "A thousand years may elapse," Dr. Johnson said, "before there shall appear another man with a power of versification equal to that of Pope." With a quarter...