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Nothing but Color. In public, Cézanne was a granitic misanthrope who could snarl through his snarled beard: "Compared to me, my compatriots are asses. I detest them all." Privately, he was racked with self-doubt: "I am a timid man, a bohemian, and people laugh at me." Late in life, he confessed that his painting had "made some progress. Why so late and so painfully...
...drawn inexorably to the minute details of the situation, which he eagerly and secretively displays to his reader. He should ideally be read-or rendered--in a heavy Victorian atmosphere itself rich in distracting detail. Mr. Williams attempted to recreate this mood by dressing himself as Dickens, beard and all, by reading from frayed volumes on a velvet-topped desk copied from that which the author used in his own "Readings" of his works and by clever use of heavy and shadowy lighting...
Last week he got distressing news. His only opponent in Allahabad, 52-year-old Prabhudatt Brahmachari, who wears a luxuriant grey beard, orange-and red-rimmed spectacles, a saffron robe and a long white loincloth, had been quietly building up the vote. Quietly was the word for it: he had done it without uttering a single sound, except an occasional loud laugh...
...named Alec Groza said recently, "Some day when I'm gray and this thing is done and, perhaps, I've lived it down, I'd like to tell the whole story about what it's all been like--about recruiting." It is unfortunate because another young man named Ralph Beard added, "Recruiting. That's the start of it. How they went out and got us to play. It got so big that...
Every child we see believes in Santa Claus. None of them pull Santa's beard; and none of them ask why they didn't get what they asked for last year, because, as you remember, Santa never promised anything. The most disruptive thing that happened to the Santa Claus department all week was the arrival of a man from Beechnut Gum. He had several bins of the stuff, and suggested that we pass it out free, which I was glad to do. Spang, however, looked at the gum somewhat goggle-eyed and announced, "Well, I'm certainly not going...