Word: characterized
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Her great mentor Degas perhaps caught her contrary character best in his 1884 portrait. Wistful, Cassatt sits in slight supplication, knees and wrists together, her eyes deflected in reverie, her hands holding playing cards like a fan. She was appalled that he depicted her with gambler's tools, but...
If her tales have a fault, it is probably that some are actually character sketches rather than genuine short stories: an aging bachelor lies his way out of the hospital so he can go home to his cat; an elderly executive dies after fulfilling his dream of visiting Dublin. But...
So, in a sense, were Australians, who long ago combined the Scotch pronunciation of his name ("Mingis") with a comic-strip character called "Ming the Merciless," dubbed his regime "The Ming Dynasty."
Clear enough. But Douglas went on to say more: "This conclusion is buttressed by the nature of the service rendered the community by a park. The service rendered even by a private park of this character is municipal in nature." As opposed to golf clubs, social centers, schools and other...
Though rich in startling, unsentimental detail, Eroica's disillusioned view of history never comes to wider focus upon a compelling character or a whole truth. Against the background of Poland in 1957, however, its very ambiguity is provocative-partly an elegy for individualism, partly an indictment of a people...