Word: charming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These works by 19th century English artists do not posses the vividness and general appeal of Sargent or Winslow Homer, but nevertheless the meticulous and almost classical methods of portraiture employed, coupled with some fascinating variations of form and color, make this collection one of great charm...
...hanging from a burdened belt, a string of broken records left in its wake, the Harvard team has reached an enviable standing. Yale as usual, has an unbeaten team. But Coach Ulen's corps may pull the bulldog's tusks out this time and cheerfully demolish the good-luck charm which has hung around his leathery neck during the past 150 meets...
...writer of "The Foxes" has not sacrificed his art or his pleasure on the altars of fame and true greatness. He has no pretensions. He does not attempt to explain life or to escape it, he presents it as he sees it, with a quiet grace and charm that is always captivating. The Negro dialect is presented echoicly without the slightest attempt at humor. The work is a lyrical pastoral, delicately beautiful. One must struggle to speak prosaicly of it when inevitably there is a rhapsody on the tip of one's tongue...
...watch the River which so early in the morning is covered with golden mist as beautiful as ever I did sec. Whereupon, very serious, I to read my speech which is cloquent, but I am no great speaker and why I did enter this contest I do not know. "Charm us, orator, till the lion look no longer than the cat!" Fiddlesticks! Already there be too much false charming and not enough truth. But Plato does give both; and I am glad to read...
...agents were not sophisticated enough to understand it. The second is that U. S. cinema censors have suddenly become sufficiently enlightened to pass scenes showing a young couple misbehaving together when the picture which includes them has definite esthetic merit. Desire is a romantic comedy of grace, dexterity and charm in which Marlene Dietrich's performance is the best she has given since she became too dignified to exhibit the legs which brought her her first U. S. fame in the Bine Angel...