Word: charming
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Antoine is one of the most successful actors at these theatres. His charm does not, like Coquelin's or Mounet Sully's, lie in a commanding voice or an extravagant costume, but consists in putting before his audience the exact counterpart of what he represents. He does not act; he lives his part. He never panders to the whims of the public: for instance, unlike other actors, he does not hesitate to turn his back on the audience. He likes to act the plays of young and comparatively unknown authors, and it is his boast that he discovered and fostered...
...euxmemes," "L' Armature," "Les Tenailles," and "La Loi de Phmme," has taken his stand as the defender and the champion of the rights of modern woman. He has voluntarily circumscribed the field of his observations to society, the sphere in which woman finds opportunity to show her grace and charm, and to exercise her supremacy. Society life is the life in which he lives in thought, and it is the subject with which he prefers to deal. To him there is something fascinating in the luxe of modern civilization, which, if too often the hell of less fortunate mortals...
...stand for a new movement because of their attempt to accomplish a certain end by taking a certain attitude. The ordinary novel is objectionable, as Poe says, because it cannot be read at one sitting, but the combination of brevity and unity in the short story is its greatest charm. Every work of fiction depends for its success on its characters, its plot, or its action and circumstances. In character delineation alone there are many differences between the novel and the short story. While in the latter a character must catch the eye at once, in a novel a commonplace...
...once wrote, and he was about to take up that kind of writing which mirrors the moral ideals of the world, the law of which is love. If "Vanity Fair" was Thackeray's most powerful book, "Henry Esmond" was of all his works the best and noblest. Its charm does not lie in its rich and beautiful style, nor in the strength of its plot, nor in the accuracy of its historical description, but rather in the deep and tender sympathy and comprehension of human nature that Thackeray has so marvelously expressed. In "Henry Esmond," in "Pendennis" and "The Newcomes...
...closing, Professor Shaler spoke of the charm of the region from an artistic point of view and illustrated both phases of his talk by stereopticon...