Word: clingingness
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Hans Pastoy becomes meditative and sympathetic. He comes to respect death. The approach is thoroughly naturalistic and pages are filled with physiological explanations. They are very illuminating but are carried to such extremes that in the end they become tedious and sometimes are in bad taste, even silly: "Something warm...
For the setting with all its manifold possibilities is worked into the story only so far as in necessary to give piquancy to the romance involved. The tale might be likened to a poplar with its clinging shoots, where it could have been made an oak with spreading branches. The...
When the paper money of a nation rises on international exchange, it is as though the paper had been dipped in clinging gold dust, making it more prized in gold-greedy eyes. Soon men will work longer, or will give more in exchange for a bit of this enriched paper...
No triumphal breezes billow the drooping banners of Belgium, where King Albert stands bareheaded, his children clinging to their mother's hand. Cardinal Mercier smiles forgiveness. Two Red Cross dogs pant patiently. The famed bicycle boy looks ready to ride again. In front of all the Belgians lie the...
In 1849, in a room through whose wide windows a soft autumn wind stirred the curtains, Frederic Chopin lay on his bed and coughed. Friends gathered to gaze at his haggard face, to watch him, still clinging to empty and conscious eccentricities, scribble notes: "As this earth will smother me...