Word: changelessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Hardy was still a boy, Author Cecil Doints out, when he became obsessed by the monotonous, changeless elements of village tragedy-"the drama of broken love and wronged girls, the feuds and the hangings . . . the witchcraft and the wax images." The laborers of "Wessex" (Dorsetshire) lived in clay cottages and raised families on seven shillings (less than $2) week. At 15, Hardy was already so appalled by the menaces of adult life that he longed to remain a boy forever. By the time he was 18 he had seen a man and a woman publicly hanged. Soon after, when...
Unlike formal portraits, in the robes that make the Court seem eternally changeless, this one illustrated sharply its clean-shaven youthfulness (average age: 56 years, compared with 71 for the 1936 Court) and such nonjudicial phenomena as Associate Justice William O. Douglas' five-gallon...
...Argentine depressed last week by import-export figures could rest his eyes, if not his mind, by contemplating other more pleasing figures. As summer ended, bathing girls, changeless in a changing world, paraded Argentine beaches competing for titles. Amid the crash of falling empires, the porteño rotogravure magazine Aqui Está (Here It Is) climactically chose a Queen, photographically fanfared (see cut) Señorita Leda Zorda as "Miss Summer 1942." To a world at war, however, Grizodubova (see p. 27) seemed more nearly appropriate as 1942's type...
...miles, a surface temperature of 6,000° C. which increases to an estimated 20,000,000° at the core. It looks like a simple ball of hot matter but actually it is a complicated engine of energy production. It shines so steadily that to laymen it seems changeless...
Lawrence and his worshiping women is a thoroughly exploited subject; Lawrence and his worshipful cow is a new one. The cow, Susan, browsed in the backyard at Taos, N. M., and was regarded by Lawrence with genuine devotion. "The queer cowy mystery of her," he wrote, "is her changeless cowy desirableness." William York Tindall, a 36-year-old professor with a razor wit, has read everything that Lawrence wrote, everything (so far as possible) that he read, and everything written about him, simply to trace the path that led Lawrence to this love. The result falls into that class...