Word: dialectic
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...entrammelled by the lure of pageantry. Too early he listened to the flattery of academicians and literary ladies. The son of a practical playwright of fame and success, he has made himself into a worshipper of closet drama, of dancing figures in cheesecloth, of symbolism and of dialect. Had this genius chosen to explore life and write of it as he found it, he might have been mentioned in the same breath as Eugene O'Neill...
...basic teachings inculcated in the Vedas. In the words of a competent authority, "Happily, India, though it has at least 20 languages, has but one sacred and learned language (Sanskrit) and one literature (Vedic) accepted and revered by all adherents of Hinduism alike however diverse the race, dialect, rank and creed." Historically studied Hinduism is a growth embodying the truths, experiences, and institutions discovered and reared by man. It is admittedly of human making, fostered by divine inspiration, as every other good deed of man is supposed...
...army of 91, but in that year the army was abolished. The population, mostly of German extraction and Catholic in religion, is about 11,000. The budget in 1922 was balanced at 384,500 Swiss francs ($66,441), and there is no public debt. The language was formerly Romonsch (dialect of the old Roman Empire), but is now German with only a few traces of the Romance...
...Contemporary American Novelists, Carl Van Doren says of him: "His shorter stories not less than his novels are racy with actualities: he has caught the dialect of his time and place with an ear that is singularly exact; he has cut the costumes of his men and villages so that hardly a wrinkle shows. In particular he understands the pathos of boyhood, seen not so much, however, through the serious eyes of boys themselves as through the eyes of reminiscent men reflecting upon young joys and griefs that will shortly be left behind and upon little pomps that can never...
...translation by Grace Lovat Fraser is spiritedly done. To preserve in a measure the flavor of the original, the translator has rendered into an English provincial dialect the parts of three or four of the characters written by Goldoni in the Venetian speech...