Word: clement
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...Americans, for its part, conjures up traditional images that Westerners derive from their abhorrence for-or fascination with--Native Americans. For most of the colonists, the Archbuilders peaceful, contemplative lifestyle and enchantment and play with the English language make them no more than stupid vagabonds. For the rest, like Clement, these same attributes deserve admiration and scrutiny and elicit awe. Although the latter is far more noble than the former, both are ultimately essentializing and patronizing pictures of an "other culture." It is only Pella that can sort through such simplifications and make fair value judgements about individual Archbuilders...
...novel, the power of words, as well as the notion of meaning, constantly comes into question. In the beginning, Pella confesses that she relies on her mother for words that serve as an "antidote" to her father's political speak. In a conversation between Efram and Pella's father Clement, this very speak implies the threat that Clement represents for Efram's power. Toward the end, Efram dies specifically because of the accusatory, lying words a child utters about him. This causation becomes clear a moment before his death. When Pella and Morris, who voices the accusation, stand before Efram...
...Pope Clement IX Rospigliosi commissioned Bernini to work on the Ponte Sant' Angelo project. For the next two years, the sculptor cast his ideas into clay, creating models for 10 over life-size marble angels, each carrying an instrument of Christ's Passion. Of the 10 angels, eight were carved by sculptors under Bernini's direction, and Bernini's own work was confined to the angels holding the Crown of Thorns and the Superscription. When the Pope visited Bernini's studio, he was so impressed with Bernini's two angels that he declared them too beautiful for outdoor display...
James Atlas suggests that writer have become increasingly into money as their influence declines. Atlas points to art critic Clement Greenberg as an example of a writer satisfied with influence alone. Greenberg could have become a very rich man had he wanted to, Atlas explains, but he was content to dictate the reigning taste in art instead...
Sheriff Jules Clement is the man in charge of keeping the town's cooped-up energies contained. A local boy who's seen the city lights during a stint in New York as a social worker, he'd rather be standing in a mountain trout stream than making his daily rounds, which are mostly devoted to tire slashings, acts of birdbath vandalism and hunting accidents. As an example of what Harrison calls "that final anomaly, a liberal officer of the law," Clement would just as soon not crack most cases, aware that the bulk of them boil down to ignorance...