Word: brutalizing
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Tory critics wrote venomous articles excoriating Epstein. They pointed out that, while the nymph in Green Mansions had been a creature so spiritual, that she required no other garments than cobwebs, so sensitive that she could understand the language of the birds, Epstein had represented her as a "superstitious, brutal-looking figure, with a queer anatomy." They viewed with alarm her orgiastic pose, her huge hands, her Babylonian visage. Unruffled, Epstein replied: "I am quite content with my own work and do not seek the approval of others. ... It is not surprising that I have some critics in the press...
...WILD DUCK?One of Henrik Ibsen's grim contributions to the world's progress. Proves that idealism is a brutal boomerang...
...torn from the hungry innocent existence of the prairies is this play, which won some sort of prize at the University of California. An orphan girl and a runaway boy on a farm fall rather inevitably into each other's arms. They attempt to run away from the brutal farmer, are hauled back. The girl finds herself about to have a child. The farmer beats the boy to death with a bull whip. The girl jumps into a well...
Senator George (Democrat): "There are some features of the rules, no doubt, that should be changed; but he defeated any change by the brutal and clownish way in which he went about...
Distance and space might be raised as objections to this scheme. But even these might be easier task-masters than brutal Britain. At least, it would be a fine thing for Harvard to make such an offer. It would be for God, for Liberty, and for Ireland...