Word: cumbrous
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Crucifixion. There, set amid violent lights and shadows, with "portentous storm clouds swirling over Calvary," a gaunt, muscular, physical Christ depends from the cross. The sweet Christ, the mild Christ, the frail Christ are not there. He is a tremendous peasant fellow. His muscles bulge. His members are large, cumbrous, powerful, those of a toiler, of a great struggler. On his face are the passing marks of the death agony, the last contortions of pain passing in the peace of unconsciousness...
Peculiarly written, in a style somewhat reminiscent at moments of the late eighteenth century and at its occasional worst absurdly recollective of the incomparable Daisy Ashford, The Orissers, for all its minor faults, fairly vibrates throughout with cumbrous but genuine power...