Word: conveys
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...series of brilliant pantomimes, he managed to convey with grace and wit the look of a man doing such assorted things as walking a tightrope, mounting and descending a staircase, and catching fluttering butterflies. At his funniest, Marceau mimes both David and Goliath in a tour de force of machine-gun character switches, from the sweet, flute-playing shepherd to the hulking brute and back again, as their historic battle rages. At his perceptive best, in Youth, Maturity, Old Age and Death, he accomplishes in less than three memorable minutes what many a novelist has failed to do in volumes...
Today's jazz reflects the American scene, the hopes, dreams and frustrations of our generation . . . Our primary aim [is] not to play a standard, familiar piece but to convey a mood, a feeling which flows back and forth from the guy on the stand to the guy in the front row and the rows behind him. Do you catch...
...Delegates to the Luther League of America at Ann Arbor, Mich, condemned "the use by the motion picture and song industries of Biblical and religious material when there is distortion of its intended purposes-to convey the Word...
...portrait of Mme. Henriot (opposite) are sonorous indeed, make a rich foil for her pale flesh and paler costume. He used to say that all he asked of a model was "a skin that takes the light," but the portrait shows that Renoir could rise to and convey beauties of personality as well as those of flesh alone. His bronze study of Mme. Renoir nursing their son (right) goes beyond flesh and personality alike to celebrate an ever-recurring and ever-moving relationship...
...turbulent bird's-eye view of Quito (see color page). More often it swoops down for an agonizingly close look at a funeral, a prison, a prostitute. His occasional canvases of embracing lovers or mothers with their children show a growing tenderness and ability to convey the smooth with the rough. If Guayasamin's incisive drawing, muddy but emotive color and exuberant sense of design are some day united in the service of a more positive view of man and the world around him, he will be remembered far beyond Ecuador...