Word: epithets
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...describing the German expressionism of the twentieth century, the same adjectives keep reappearing. "Incisive" and "bold" are among the milder ones. "Brutal" really ought to be an epithet in art criticism, but in this connection it constantly arises as the laudatory description of a narrative school of art. In comparison, and often, unfortunately, in opposition, the modern art of France is cited as an opposed camp. The debate has been made to resemble an international conflict...
...Hawley, a medium-posh Connecticut prep school, the thoughts of youth are wrong, wrong thoughts, and the masters are "worn and cynical far beyond their years." Pupils are not, as at nearby Hotchkiss, "under oath" to abstain from smoking; Hawley's "deadly droops" (a Hotchkiss epithet) are merely forbidden this pleasure. For characters like Baxter (an outcast because he arrived from the West Coast, of all places, in a brown suit and porkpie hat) and for McGough (who suffers the crippling handicap of being the headmaster's son), there is only one thing to do at Hawley-defeat...
...week a venerable labor leader sentimentally told his colleagues: "After 30 years in the union it was the greatest pleasure of my life to see the Dock Road in such an idle state yesterday." At Southampton other union bosses sallied out in a motor launch to hurl the dreaded epithet "strikebreaker" at the crews of Royal Navy tugs which were towing the 81,237-ton Queen Mary out to sea. Without quite knowing how or why, Britain had drifted to the verge of a work stoppage which all the headlines said would be the biggest since the general strike...
...rave, and stand still to make philosophical statements, and Pianist Schnabel was temperamentally capable of bringing all of these qualities into line with Beethoven's more appealing side. Beethoven was also the first composer to become a bourgeois hero and one of the first upon whom the stupefying epithet "great" was popularly bestowed, an event that forecast the beginning of the present sorry condition of concert music-during the last hundred years, no concert has been really classy unless it had some Beethoven or another "great" on the program. Toward the end of his career, Schnabel himself rarely played...
...word was never printed as such in The Virginian. Said Author Wister, whose publishers blanked out the epithet, "I always regretted having to use '----' instead of the real oath that caused the Virginian to say 'When you call me that, smile.' I never had any sympathy with censorship; after all, if a word expresses an idea and only that word will do, it should be used...