Word: keen
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Brieux, who started as a journalist in a small country town, has seen much of life. "Menage d'Artistes," "Blanchette," and "Les Trois Filles de M. Dupont" are works that show a keen desire for fighting the evils with which the family life of our society is afflicted. The subjects he deals with are as modern and as true to life as the news we read in the daily papers; they are comedies as well as moral plays. He is another who always works out his plots with the simplest solutions...
...dignity due him as the protector of his country. "Les Gaietes de l'Escadron" is an excellent parody -- albeit full of philosophy--on the less attractive sides of military life. "Le Train de 8:47," "Boubonroche," and other similar works, belong to the same category and show the same keen appreciation of humannature...
...revival? "I loved the art of words and the appearances of life," he once wrote, and in this sentence is contained the answer to the question. He was peculiarly a word artist, a writer of surpassing skill in rhetorical effect. He "loved the appearances of men"; he had a keen zest for romantic adventure, a keen curiosity concerning the lives and characters of men, and, above all, a sensitive appreciation of the romantic in scenery and history. The one weakness in his work arose from the way in which he learned to write. It was his habit to attempt...
...achieved in his work no great success and had won no name. Versatile and brilliant he was indeed, and he had gained a wide knowledge of the world and keen insight into the characters of men; but still he was merely a writer with no definite purpose, and from among the various branches of literature had not finally chosen the kind of writing which he was to make peculiarly his own. Truth in writing, that power that scorns the sham and pictures the real, Thackeray had, and a fund of brilliant humor also. He had lacked the personal and distinctive...
Lofty in character, sagacious and keen in judgment, loyally devoted to the law, to the Constitution and its defense, John Marshall stands as one of the great forces that made for the enduring stability of the United States...