Word: conveys
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...survivors, we can only guess what is happening to them. Vague talk of "Morale" is all that we can gather about Germany and Britain. We are told that the French are starving, but we are told in statistical terms that convey no connotations of human suffering. Belgium, Holland, and Poland we suspect to be wastelands. The latest tragedy, the Rumanian cartilage, has been received in this country with calmness and even with rejoicing...
LONDON--Striking trip-hammer blows at Germany's naval "invasion forces," the Royal Air Force today reported a blasting attack on new Nazi warships being built in the Hamburg dockyards and disorganization of a large convey of armed cargo ships off Dunkerque...
...cabled slyly: "There will be no more Brussels sprouts,"a phrase the censor freely passed. Such finagling is not often attempted. Radio newscasters usually talk straight, depend on inflection to convey shades of meaning...
...Howard Turner which, in certain cases, excel the characteristic finesse which his past performances have led us to expect. His drawing for "The Mother" exemplifies Turner's economy of line in relation to the idea which he desires to express. He manages, fully and with apparent case, to convey the implications and framework of the story for which his illustration is created, without confusing the reader. Turner shows imagination, a sense of coherence, and an intelligent suppression of detail in his work...
...recent article on Picasso in the Kenyon Review, Wyndham Lewis refers to the figures in "Two Seated Women" as "empty, pneumatic giantesses." He goes on to say that these nude women have neither a plastic nor a pictorial justification. Mass, he adds, can be conveyed more successfully be other methods. Now Mr. Lewis, an artist himself, should know better than to make such statements. In the first place, who said that Picasso was trying to convey mass? No one except Mr. Lewis and the catalogue which accompanied the exhibit. And both are mistaken. Rather than enter upon an "a priori...