Word: inwards
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bowels and nerves than about the Laureate wreath he was born to inherit." He was almost as observing about himself: "I know that I could write volume after volume as well as others of the mob of gentlemen who write with ease; but ... I have not the strong inward call, nor cruel-sweet pangs of parturition, that prove the birth of anything bigger than a mouse...
...Nazi conquest and (promoted to ambassador) shared in its tragic return. His reports, once prized for their wit, have recently been soberly serious. A philosophic democrat, MacVeagh has seen Greece, which gave the word democracy to the world, sick from within and under assault from without. To cure the inward sickness, MacVeagh holds emphatically, in his quiet voice and brilliantly phrased dispatches, that the U.S. must move in and virtually run the country to make its aid effective. Yet, with Byron, he has "dreamed that Greece might still be free," and striven with Byronic fervor to make the dream come...
...trapezoidal dining room with its glittering candlebra and bleak yellow walls doesn't supply as much inward contentment as what comes off the serving line. When all is said and done, Leverett probably stands first gastronomically among the five Houses connected with the mass-production line of the University kitchen...
Unlike outdoorish Winslow Homer (see above), Rouault has always looked inward, to paint the medieval hells and heavens exploding within the high dome of his skull. Rouault was born in violence when a shell blasted his mother out of bed during the bombardment of Paris in 1871. At 14 he went to work in a stained-glass factory, where he earned a dollar a week and developed his unique inner climate-as sharp and glowing, to judge by his art, as glass...
...island, "reached by tunnel from the mainland," where feeding-bottles and other nourishment will hang from bushes-giving peeking scientists a chance to study inborn faculties at their most virginal). Only when the resulting adult is thus "aware" and "conscious in the instinctual sense" will he experience true "illumination," "inward experience...