Word: deepened
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Leonardo dissected bodies and drew what he found for two reasons. He wanted to systematize the scientific study of anatomy at a time-the late 15th century-when the human skin was the frontier of unknown territory. He also wanted to deepen his understanding of the muscular frame, whose shapes determine the figure and are the key to proportion and beauty. Nowhere in his work do the scientific and aesthetic impulses twine more closely. But they grew under the shadow of disgust, and to appreciate these drawings one must grasp the difficulty of making them. The anatomist had no preservatives...
...initial tensions fail to build, and Tremblay doesn't deepen his characterizations. Serge's sisters just eat, drink, cry, and beseech Serge more and more: help me, be near me, move in with me. The stasis is partly Tremblay's way of showing how rutted the family is; Serge recognizes the pattern and shouts to Lucienne "How many times have we been through this routine...
...leaders in Washington and other Western capitals last week could not extract much more from Moscow than the qualified expressions of regret that were heard on the streets. Instead, Soviet leaders responded with volley after volley of recriminations, continuing the defiant war of words with Washington that threatens to deepen the damage caused by the air tragedy...
...challenge facing Japanese music, then, is to deepen the understanding of an art they now share with the West. Performers, having proved themselves the equal of any technically, must now transcend their sensei and find their own, distinctly Japanese voices. -By Michael Walsh
...famous beatitude "Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they shall be satisfied." In a powerful and resonant voice, the Pope made a passionate plea for national reconciliation. Said he: "Inch by inch and day by day, it is necessary to build up trust-and to deepen trust." But the word solidarity kept cropping up. He told all those who worked that he brought his "solidarity and that of the church." A "hunger for righteousness," he explained, developed from "love of the homeland and from solidarity, that is to say from a sense of common good." Each...