Word: flaw
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...perfection of detail which cannot be secured so long as the lavishness of the public does not equal its critical sense. But if it be said that the sublimity and complexity of King Lear render any representation of it necessarily inadequate, it follows that there is a fatal flaw and self contradiction at the foundation of Shakspere's art. For if his living pictures cannot be made to move across the stage in all the telling truth of their contrast and variety,- Shakspere missed his vocation. He should have written poems or novels, not plays...
...shall receive and guard among our treasures, is a magnificent production. It is made of marble and of course is an exact production of the bust in Westminster. As a work of art, the bust is superb, admirable as a likeness and composed of marble that is without a flaw. It shows the poet in his grandest form, the pose is easy and natural, and being a little larger than life to allow for its being slightly elevated, the effect is absolutely noble. The opinion concerning the bust is that as a work of art it is excelled by none...
...Phelps' attention was called back to his companion by the Professor's winding up with, "Which, you see, gives us 'X.'" "Does it?" asked Mr. Phelps, thinking that in politeness he ought to reply something. "Why, doesn't it?" excitedly exclaimed the Professor, alarmed at the possibility that a flaw had been detected in his calculations. Quickly, his mind ran back over the work. There had indeed, been a mistake. "You are right, Mr. Phelps, you are right," almost shouted the Professor. "It doesn't give us 'X;' it gives us 'y.'" And from that hour, Prof. Newton looked upon...
...length the eventful day and hour came, my name was called, and I marched up to the table once more, passing successfully the Cerberus with the pile of papers, who could find no flaw in my passport this time. The next man was the Rector, who asked me my name and nationality, having apparently forgotten my previous visit to him, and wrote them into their appropriate places in a large sheet before him, which I afterwards found was a sort of testimonial that I, "vir juvenis ornatissimus," &c., had entered the University and was enrolled among its students...
...young professor is the most worthy of study. He is not so learned, perhaps, as his elder fellow-workers, but he generally appears more so. Indeed, in his own estimation there never was any one quite so erudite as himself. He can correct Homer's Greek, or pick a flaw in Newton's mathematics. He is, in his small way, a living dictionary, and as versatile as a trained poodle at the circus. But has he not a kind of fellow-feeling with students, - from whom he is removed by only a few years? Hardly; for that would be beneath...