Word: engrossing
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...highly sensitive. It is simultaneously a drama of man against fate, man against man, and man against himself, skillfully woven into story. Yet the perceptive author is never lost in the grandiose scheme. The eye for delineation of habit and idiosyncrasy combine with a dramatist's craftsmanship to engross the reader...
...Lord Wavell had followed monolithic Lord Linlithgow, the outgoing and unregretted 18th Viceroy, into office at a time when the Raj was at its lowest point yet in both Indian and British esteem. Many of India's millions, ordinarily unstirred by and unaware of the political issues which engross the articulate minority, felt in their bellies a failure of the Raj. They were starving...
...engross the present and dominate...
...Vive le Roi!" The British Foreign Secretary, Viscount Halifax, who accompanied King George to handle negotiations for His Majesty's Government, began at once an earnest conversation with French Premier Edouard Daladier which appeared completely to engross the two statesmen as the car in which they rode followed the procession. The $7,500.000 jewels meanwhile were whisked quietly to the British Embassy, locked up in the safe. Individual pieces were brought separately by the Scotland Yard detectives to Their Majesties, who lodged on the Quai d'Orsay in the palace of the French Foreign Office. There, the large...
...Three Centuries of Harvard" is a triumph in the writing of intimate history. Professor Morison's genial wit never fails to refresh, his narrative to engross, even the most casual reader. This is a book which every Harvard man should treasure as a valuable item of his library. As the author remarks in his Preface ". . . this is not intended as a reference book, or a treatise; it has been written to he read and enjoyed...