Word: depict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paul Bowles' first attempt at a novel suffers from one salient fault--the author tries too hard. Attempting to depict man's flight into moral chaos and nihilism, Mr. Bowles utilizes a plot too weird to convince and a technique too realistic to carry the reader to the symbolic level...
...whole province . . . they raised an army in the defense of all that makes human life honourable and endurable, and they inspired a loyalty and love which, with the debasement of the term 'Charity,' is hard to describe; we have now no fine enough word to depict such virtue...
...machinery that has been grinding out monthly chuckles for almost three generations of Cantabrigians is set between three walls of the island fortress that guards the Mt. Auburn Street approaches to the Gold Coast Valeteria. The structure is fraught with symbolic significance. The western tip was designed to depict a smiling face, while the eastern end is said to represent a clothing store. But accurate description pales beside the comment of a tourist from the Middle West, who, pulling his ear up in front of Adams House one day last summer, squinted across the street, turned to his wife...
...expert's taste for whiskey. Last week, the two concerns were closely connected. In a salón of the National Capitol in Bogotá, Martínez was busily slapping strong blues and rich reds on a 30-ft. expanse of wall (see cut). His mural will depict the inauguration of Liberators Simón Bolívar and Francisco de Paula Santander at Rosário de Cúcuta in 1821. If he finished on time there would be a bonus: two jugs of whiskey...
Those who attend run the gaunt from a movie entitled "In the Beginning," which purports to depict "certain essentials of fatherhood," to a lecture on "The Historic Background of Medicine and Obstetrics...