Word: depictions
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...every country have a certain brutality of instinct. Yet in criticising this work, the peasants declare that Zola has ascribed to them all the crimes committed in the whole of France during the last ten years. Zola has betrayed Truth; he has made up his mind to depict human nature as ugly, and accordingly all classes fail to recognize themselves as he depicts them. In defence of this pessimistic attitude of Zola, the reply should be that one cannot expect an artist to paint things as they really are; but to paint things as he sees them. Zola...
...Senior board hands over the paper to the class of 1902. In the article. "An Apology for Stories," the present number departs distinctly from the beaten track. The "Apology" takes up briefly and concisely the questions of college literary productions, and undertakes to account for their failure truly to depict college literary productions, and undertakes to account for their failure truly to depict college life, or, in the words of the writer, "to discover why college stories are not better than they are." In the closing words of this article, the field of the Advocate is well defined...
...dominant note and the inspiration of mediaeval art; on the other hand, the art of the Renaissance reflected the freedom of though and the tendency to classicism of the Renaissance itself. Its spirit was essentially mundane and finally became, in imitation of the Greeks, a mere effort to depict physical beauty. The Italian antists, however, took the later Graeco-Roman period for a model rather than the classic Greek and in consequence took eventually a very artificial tone. In the fifteenth century this was less noticeable, but in the sixteenth century art became very artificial and in many cases coarse...
...clearly and forcibly the virtues and the faults of the old-comedy writers. No one felt the influence of the Puritan spirit less than Wycherly, Congreve and Farquaar. These men saw the follies and fashions of the time, thought they represented real life and as such chose to depict them. Now we realize that the world they lived in was only the artificial world. An example of a contemporary production which suffers from the same fault is Mr. Oscar Wilde's "A Woman of No Importance...
...Fletcher write the scenes which depict the ends of Cardinal Wolsey and of Queen Katharine? [See Leopold Shakespeare: Introduction...