Word: candidate
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...writing, both in Fantasio's conversation and in the strange method he takes to prevent Elizabeth's marriage. De Musset was one of the best painters of the young girl. Elizabeth is the type of the young girl of Romanticism. Cecilia is not a romantic type but a simple candid young girl...
Some verses entitled "Rudyard Kipling," by J. A. Macy is at all events acknowledged imitation, and equally candid treatment would substitute the title "Anthony Hope" for "Some Have Greatness Thrust Upon Them," which is contributed by R. Clapp. The latter is a brief episode successfully worked up, and the author has succeeded in catching something of Hope's freshness and vigor, which partially atones for lack of originality...
...wilful disregard of facts, an unwillingness to admit anything good of the opposite side, that entirely shuts it out from any claim upon intelligent attention. Such phrases as "brute instincts which they have been sedulously cultivating," "animal gratifications," and the like, indicate an attitude of mind the opposite of candid or dignified. It may be that we are taking the Nation too seriously, and that the expressions we quote are acknowledged hyperpolae, assumed for rhetorical effect. Admitting that, we cannot see that there is any increase of dignity...
...spite of this he never seems to be able to give the warmth of life to his work. Although in this respect he fails to procure absolute truth, his figures show great force and originality, they are nobly powerful, beautiful in their stern, silent repose and in the candid straightforward convictions which they express...
...show piece of The Atlantic for June is General Walker's "The Eight-Hour Law Agitation," in which he gives an extremely candid and fair view of the subject on various sides, while nto pretending to hide his own conviction of the impracticability of such legislation. Mr. Warner, in his paper on "The Novel and the Common School," unintentionally emphasizes Mr. Lowell's remark that we are the most common-schooled and least educated people in the world. Mr. Warner asserts that it is the business of schools to teach a love of the good literature which is the fruitage...