Word: clearest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Colloquialism, Please. All her novels are set in an English country house around the year 1900 (only one, Pastors and Masters, takes place after 1918) and all her characters, regardless of their age and education, talk in a language which is a combination of Gertrude Stein at her clearest and a book of Victorian etiquette at its most pompous ("Will you rise with your unconscious grace and ring the bell?" they say). They talk thus even when they are planning murder, fraud and forgery, or saying aloud the thoughts that living people are most careful not to say. They...
...newest and clearest statements of the Catholic position appeared recently in Rome in the Jesuits' fortnightly La Civilità Cattolica. Excerpts are quoted in this week's Christian Century...
This growth was the "clearest index of true freedom of the press." How was this freedom defined? Said Pravda: "Every line in our newspapers and journals must be devoted to Bolshevik propaganda...
...beyond a story on the show here; it is one of the clearest and best and most trenchant expositions of what modern art is all about. With your reproductions (in LIFE and TIME) you are doing for art what the phonograph and radio have done in popularizing good music...
Ignoring the infinitely various hues of nature, pre-Renaissance and Eastern artists used the clearest colors they could find, combining them in arbitrary and surprising harmonies. They elided, exaggerated, twisted, destroyed, repeated and transposed the contours of real objects in order to draw lines with an integrated life and rhythm of their own-staccato in Byzantine mosaics and stained glass, sinuous in Chinese brush drawings, Japanese prints, Persian miniatures and Turkish rugs...