Word: constructed
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Just as Whistler honed Sickert's taste for art-world polemics and politics, so his long association with Degas steered him away from being a provincial Impressionist, grazing on first sensations. Construct in the studio, do studies, mistrust "the tyranny of nature." And if you want narrative, why not have it? The world, especially the city -- for Sickert was an intensely urban painter -- was crammed with narratives, and like Degas, Sickert found his in closed rooms and places of popular entertainment. For Degas's cafes concerts, Sickert substituted the British music hall, then at its apex of rowdy success...
WYATT PALMER IS THE ASSIStant city manager of Five Oaks, Michigan. His wife Susan likes to walk on her hands, pull her pet rabbit out of a hat and construct miniature stage sets. Aunt Ellen is writing the Bible, and Wyatt's sweetly psychotic mother Jeanne makes up 50 cents words like nutomberized, descorbitant and corilineal, which she defines as "so normal, it's strange...
Thomas said he does not suspect foul play. But the block is "a precious commodity," according to Peter J. Riley of Harvard Real Estate, the manager of the Weld renovation. The 19th century granite used to construct Weld is very hard to match, Riley said...
...fact, Delventhal said he might try to enlist the services of engineering students at Union to construct a device to help Gallant against the Crimson...
This is one power relationship that's not just a construct: your stylist has the know-how to help you; you want the help your stylist can give. You get a haircut; your stylist gets inner peace...