Word: gusto
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Hopper yearned simply to "paint sunlight on the side of a house." But his oils lacked the gusto then in fashion. They showed an almost obsessive fear of the flourish. Xo one wanted them. For a whole decade he practically ceased 'painting them. His empty easel was wasteland, and within himself lay wilderness. His friends heard nothing from him; apparently he had gone under...
...sometimes tumbles over her lines. The role of Teddy is unruinable: charging up the stairs (San Juan Hill), plunging down to the cellar (Panama), bellowing, or bugling, George Lipton does nothing to diminish the preposterous comedy of his role. Mortimer is acted well, but Hugh Reilly often forces excessive gusto or thickheadedness into his part. The glowering Jonathan is solidly acted by George Cotton, who, sadly, looks like Orson Welles instead of Boris Karloff (the role was written as a parody of Karloff, and Karloff was persuaded to act it in the original production...
Latest installments of two monumental publishing projects, vastly different in subject matter and yet similar in their grandiose gusto for life, letters and history...
...coldly and calculatingly-these, as Rowse sees them, are not only natural characteristics in great men and women, but a small price to pay for national greatness and security. Be that as it may, the Marlboroughs, all of whose five sons died young, left to no one their remarkable gusto for such a role. One of Sarah's more enterprising daughters formed a liaison with a "low poet" of the Restoration named Congreve, and the son she bore died a hopeless drunkard. This was an omen perhaps of the centuries the family would lie fallow until another Churchill, half...
...Saint, one of the best stories in the collection, starts with the words: "When I was seventeen years old, I lost my religious faith." Such a loss would weigh heavily on Pritchett in his critical capacity, but in one of his short stories, it is a sure sign of gusto to follow. Ten pages after the loss has been reported, the bereaved youth is floating disconsolately downstream in a punt, while the evangelist who has come to restore his faith is clinging hopelessly to the branch of a willow tree and slowly sinking, like "a declining dogma," into the cold...