Word: calme
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think Spyros conducted himself in theproper manner," McKay said. "I think he could havebeen a little more calm...
Carol A. Sullivan, director of industries for the Massachusetts Commission for the Blind, said Weld's visit helped calm workers' fears about the future of the agency and the potential loss of jobs and retirement benefits...
...protest squad of an evangelical church in St. Paul, Minnesota. He collides with a pregnant young woman named Kim during a protest at an abortion clinic, and at first is attracted to the idea of saving her fetus and her soul. Then, faintly -- a puff of wind ruffles the calm -- he is attracted to her. Kirn, author of a 1990 story collection, My Hard Bargain, plays fair with both the churchly and the wicked -- middling people in an everyday predicament. His story is shrewd and wryly amusing...
...lawyer was to concede all nonessential matters while he focused on the crucial part of any case -- what he called the nub. In pursuit of that, he was brilliantly logical behind his haze of concessions, his diffidence about ancillary matters: "He was not impulsive, fanciful or imaginative; but cold, calm and precise. He threw his whole mental light around the object." In stating the nub, he chose words "that contained the exact coloring, power and shape of his ideas...
This image of Matisse as a decorative, hence feminine, hence inferior painter tended to stick. Ironically, it would be supplanted later by the exactly opposite mistake: that Matisse's gaze on his odalisques in the calm of the Nice studio was the quintessence of male sexism, and that his love of pleasurable objects and delectable color, of luxury in general, disqualified him as a real voice of the 20th century because it was not revolutionary...