Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...gave him a definite position in the front rank of English actors. He created the part of Dunstan Renshaw in Piner's "The Profligate," and fairly electrified the audience by the perfection of his acting. At the Garrick in 1890 as Baron Scarpia in "La Tosca," Mr. Robertson's grim, powerful and horribly fascinating performance came as a revelation to play-goers who had identified the actor with the sympathetic young lovers of Shakesperian and modern drama. After creating the part of Dennis Heron in Pinero's "Lady Bountiful," he gave a beautiful and memorable rendering of Buckingham in "Henry...
...ideas and purposes. What Dante sees in his vision of Hell is the natural reaction of conduct upon character: the suffering which he portrays has not been arbitrarily inflicted, but is the logical result of sin. His mind, despite his liberal tendencies, was of the seventeenth century type. The grim symbolism of his Hell is as stern and terrible as human realism can contemplate...