Word: languidness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...outset there were two incongruous conceptions about the state of the dead. One was that they were powerful. This belief brought with it a corresponding cultus of the dead. On the other hand was the conception of the dead as "the weak," or "languid." The idea of the tomb in which the members of a family were buried, grew to the larger idea of sheol or the underworld, a place of dark, gloomy depths. Several passages in the Bible indicate the belief that earthly distinctions were carried into the other world...
...club has gone to the expense of having a professional coach at the boat house daily, who is always ready to coach the candidates. As yet, however, his efforts have been useless as the men have taken so languid an interest in the matter...
Tschaikowsky's magnificent fifth Symphony brought to a close the finest concert, perhaps, of the season. His compositions bear more or less of the Slavonic temperament - "fiery exaltation on a basis of languid melancholy." He is fond of fantastic and melodic tunes, bold modulations and striking effects; and his fifth symphony is perhaps his most characteristic. The orchestration is very rich, the various instruments playing alternately one time to give fantastic effects and again combining in grand harmonies. There is much restlessness throughout, even in the lovely Andante cantabile and the orchestra is kept at a high tension. The Symphony...
...excellent method, but it was one apt to give, instead of criticism, too many incidents of the author. In general tone his criticisms are happy and good natured and in touch with humanity. His irony is keen and delicate, and while he is sometimes diffuse he is never languid. If not a great man in the most comprehensive sense he was a useful man to his country...
...Norman Hapgood's "Mallock and the Positivists" is a careful study giving evidence of thorough appreciation of the subject treated. Its abstract character will, however, perhaps frighten away languid readers and fail to bring it the notice of which it is worthy...