Word: broodingness
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It was, in a sense, a limbering-up exercise. When Diego Velásquez was living in Rome in 1649, he was summoned to paint the portrait of Pope Innocent X. The artist was out of practice; he had done no heads for some years. So, to get his hand...
Meanwhile, one of her ladies-in-waiting has written to D'Artagnan, "I have been abducted again," and, with that, the plot's whole creaky machinery is set in motion. Timothy Carden is D'Artagnan, the would-be fourth musketeer; to him falls the task of combining many of the...
Where does the love of man end and the love of God begin? Can an individual's passion be divided between the two without disaster to man or affront to God? Does God demand terrible sacrifice as atonement for an innocent appetite for earthly life? These are questions that...
"The syndrome does not, of course, affect everyone who enjoys riding a motorcycle," he said. And "the sense or ejection, pervasive anger, and brooding resentment" that go with this syndrome "characterize not only the patients described but a large proportion of young people today."
Vertical lines and a virtual absence of windows give the crisply detailed tower a powerful, brooding air. But the building clearly states its purpose. Devoted to research labs, it is the place where agronomists conduct prolonged experiments in biology and biochemistry, which require precise climate control as well as immunity...