Word: denouements
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Considerably less satisfactory is the story, "The Thing He Never Knew." A situation, not altogether unpromising as short story material, the denouement of which requires motivation, is disposed of in wholly inadequate space with consequent cheapening of effect,--and effect which the style, unfortunately, is too conventional to alleviate. Mr. Rodgers's "Chowder," the sprightly sketch which follows, is more pleasing...
...attention of a cousin. This is followed by an avowal to her uncle, the Cardinal Merance, and leads directly to the climax in the meeting of Pierre de Lancrey and Primerose. The play is written in a heavier vein than the authors' other works, as it ends in a denouement of great pathos and emotion...
...fiction is concerned we are not disappointed. Mr. Kister, who, judged by his two stories, loves the tactual, tells his grim tale well. Mr. Davidson although we early guess half of the denouement of his romance, nevertheless surprises us with the other half, and throughout the whole tale gives joyously vivid pictures of a West, not yet, we hope, wholly departed. His characters are alive, and the wind blows. In Balked Mr. Raffalovich burlesques certain modern fads, but such fads, even in burlesques, are worth neither the expenditure of Mr. Raffalovich's gifts nor the time of the paper maker...
...place they have won in the Advocate. The stories, too, are well written, though slight and immature artistically, as compared with the verse, and depend too exclusively for their effectiveness upon some simple, strong, unshaded contrast, or upon some element of surprise--extravagant or farcical--in the denouement. Except in "A Fool," by Mr. Putnam, there is little attempt at characterization, and even here it is rather rudimentary. The one article "Concerning the Young Russians" is interesting and well-informed, though more might, with justice, be said for Artsybashey and the philosophical significance and artistic quality of his novels, "Sanine...
...denouement comes after a Professor Garrison acts upon his theory that if his wife loves another, he must let her go to this man because her lover is her true husband "in the eyes of thinking people." The number of such thinking people is fortunately small, and by the unromantic and the unmarried Jane Mason, the situation is saved and the doctor's harem returns to its or their husbands...