Word: defiant
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...highest poetry, Housman thinks, is not definable. No modern over-estimator of the 18th Century, he says: "When I hear anyone say, with defiant emphasis, that Pope was a poet, I suspect him of calling in ambiguity of language to promote confusion of thought." Most poetical of all poets, he thinks, was William Blake. As an example of "perfect poetry" he quotes a stanza from Samuel Daniel...
...want sympathy you had better look for it in the dictionary, Author Lewis is a passionate believer in the reality of dictionary words. Ann Vickers, his first book since he won the Nobel Prize, is only incidentally an attack on U. S. politics, society, penology. Fundamentally it is a defiant, 362-page paean in praise of Womanhood and Crusades...
...dizzy crags and bleak castle ramparts above the winding Rhine last week Germans lit defiant bonfires, marked the tenth anniversary of French occupation of the Ruhr, a move which Germans always interpreted as a French attempt to seize the left bank of the Rhine...
...When do we eat? We want action!" screamed a score of Communists one night last week as they shoved past a police cordon into Manhattan's East 65th Street and took up a defiant stand before the brownstone house of President-elect Roosevelt. Being photographed on the steps of the house were five Senators and six Representatives, Democrats all, who had just arrived from Washington for a party conference with their national leader. The Communists shook fists, hooted, yelled. The Congressmen beat a quick retreat inside the Roosevelt home. The police with many a fisticuff and nightstick thwack cleared...
Autobiographies almost invariably contain an apology; some have little else. In Earth Horizon Mary Austin's apology, never explicit, is to be found in her generally defiant tone. "I don't see why it should be so much the literary mode just now to pretend that ideas are not intrinsically exciting and that one's own life isn't interesting to one's self." Hiding her personal pronoun behind her name, she writes of herself sometimes as 'T." some-times as ''Mary." The rising generation may find little to attract them...