Word: indistinctness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everywhere but under the seats for the romanticism, found a will o' the wisp clue in their program notes, where Composer Krenek's own words told them: "At the end of the piece the piano seems to remove all traces of solidity, the orchestra reverts to the indistinct sounds of the high violins which introduced the work . . . leading the music back to the remoteness whence it came...
Once more last week members of the Pope's household told newshawks that the 79-vear-old Holy Father is not well Afflicted with endocarditis, Pius XI sweats much, sleeps little, walks with difficulty. His once vigorous voice is low, indistinct. Because he is rapidly losing the use of his legs Vatican officials declared that it might soon be necessary to carry the Father wherever he goes. Chief reason for the current decline in his health, they pointed out, is the civil war in Spain, on which Papal Secretary of State Eugenio Cardinal Pacelli has daily conferred with...
Added attractions include a new "March of Time," which exposes and explains with unusual spirit. Also there are pictures of the Harvard-Yale game. The latter are rather indistinct through reasons with which everyone will sympathize. We did, however, resent there being no pictures of the crowd, for we always cherish the possibility of our attaining stardom...
...senses to a dazzling pin-point of luminosity a vast distance within itself; in the empty void about it swirl shapeless visions, as badly squared as painted blocks; there is a sensation of a ceaseless drop from an infinite height, a whirling flight through an entire universe of indistinct, uncomprehending chaos...
Londoners who viewed Photographer Irvine's cinema found the picture too indistinct to be convincing. Some were sure they were looking at nothing more than a large gnarled log floating on the lake. On a plaster cast of Hunter Wetherell's footprint the Natural History Museum in London reported: "We are unable to find any significant difference between these impressions and those made by a hippopotamus...