Word: cussedness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Eakins is the greatest realist painter America has so far produced. He never successfully idealized a subject. When theatrical, which he rarely was, he tended to look silly. He was pragmatic, cussed, inquisitive, thoroughgoing, relentlessly observant, and plain of pictorial speech: a Yankee to the last finger bone. He was...
Original Sins is an old-fashioned novel in the best sense of the term. It propels singular, interesting characters through a panoramic plot. Alther takes risks that sometimes fail. She is willing to sacrifice plausibility for a comic effect, to put her characters through paces that occasionally seem dictated rather...
There is, of course, a scientific explanation. A stubborn high-pressure system over the Rockies is keeping warm westerly winds trapped, while Siberian air masses come trundling over the North Pole and down the Eastern seaboard. Other observers, more seasoned, merely grumble that it is the cussed contrariness of Old...
I cussed him a thousand times in practice. Not to his face; I'm not crazy. I smoke cigarettes, but never in front of him. Figure that one out. If he ever called me up on a Monday and said he needed help, I'd be on the...
Joe Rue, who umpired in the American League from 1938 to 1947, agrees. "I've been mobbed, cussed, booed, kicked in the ass, punched in the face, hit with mud balls and whisky bottles, and had everything from shoes to fruits and vegetables thrown at me ... An umpire should...