Word: breadth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief interest of the occasion lies in the new note which he strikes in such pictures as 'Midsummer,' 'Old Wharves,' 'Fog' and 'The Inlet.' He paints with increased breadth and force, without forgetting the sound composition to which we have become accustomed in his work. He leaves the impression of an artist who has taken a decisive step forward...
...Dante's Lookout and saw that 50 miles of the sink had become covered with water. In the memory of none of the inhabitants of the Valley region had so much rain fallen or so much seepage accumulated from distant snows. When the waters disappear the length and breadth of that blistering desert will be a wilderness of wildflowers, bluebells, poppies, buttercups, Indian paintbrush. A little moisture caused this to happen two years ago. Then the heat will come along again and mow them down with a fiery scythe...
Practically all the subjects are Moorish. There is some work in opaque colour, but most of the sketches are in transparent water colours of unusual brilliance. Professor Haffner's water colour technique has always been marked by especial breadth and sparkle. This tendency was stimulated by the brilliant light in the districts in which he has recently worked. Some, like the three water colours framed in black mats, in which there is almost no colour so that the paintings might be called "symphonies in white light," are extraordinary examples of a technique which though fundamentally the old one, seems...
...abilities by which he did this were not merely those for which Lord Haldane named him the "father of modern jurisprudence." In him, legal acumen and breadth of vision were tempered by a noble humanity. The narrow formalism of law, so often hostile to this quality, seems never to have dulled either his vision or his generosity. It is no more accident that his opinions have always been considered as masterpieces of English legal style. It is rather the natural consequence of his capacity to embrace the largest aspects of any subject which engaged his mind...
...stuff of shadow; she has no existence outside your own dreams and is often no more than the reflection of your own thoughts shining upon the face of nature. The materialist will tell me that . . . he sees me standing here, a three-dimensional being, with length, breadth and thickness, and that, in this sense, I have obviously three dimensions. Alas! I have sought to point out to him that the impression which he gets of me is obtained through a two-dimensional image on the retinas of his eyes; that he sees me twice over, once in each eye; that...