Word: convey
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reader cannot become involved with the characters of the book because there is nothing sympathetic about them, and the action adds nothing to what the reader retains. The impressions are vivid, and in the impressions association is possible; but one wonders whether a chapter is not long enough to convey the tragedy of human beings lost and alone in the world...
...fully Chekhovian, not of the quality of Uncle Vanya, The Three Sisters, The Cherry Orchard. Already-and quite wonderfully in places-it has Chekhov's fragrance, incisiveness, poignancy; It has dialogue that, if seemingly scrappy and elliptical, constitutes a marvelous sort of notation. Already, Chekhov can convey the apartness and aloneness of people; already, too, he can be about equally compassionate and merciless, not so much acquitting his characters as pardoning them...
Though the film manages to grasp and convey the current of Dostoyevsky's ideas, it sometimes becomes tedious as entertainment. The book is episodic and disjointed and the French producers have not done enough to remedy this in their screen adaptation. Also much of the force of several scenes is diminished when the histrionics of the participants seem more like adolescent temper than mature emotionalism...
...line. But such representation is rarely achieved without a certain stress and strain. Part of the charm of these pictures lies in the tension between a recalcitrant image and the artist's determination to get it down on his canvas or panel . . . Basically realistic, he manages to convey the specific character of his subject with a vividness which the academic painter, trained to generalize and to idealize, often loses...
Sabro Hasegawa, 47, a Japanese exhibiting at The Contemporaries, expresses himself with a somewhat less intelligible accent that mixes abstractionism and Eastern inscrutability. But even when the words are not understandable, Hasegawa's intent is clear: to convey peace, order and dignity through form and design. His favorite method: wood-block printing. He dips pieces of wood into Chinese ink, prints directly onto rice paper. The result, as in a four-paneled screen called The Harmonious, is a pleasing arrangement of black and grey rectangles. He uses color sparingly, feels that his black ink "is very colorful." Sometimes...