Word: loveliest
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...more sympathetic person and take the edge off her duplicitous scheming. When she first appears before the King she does not curtsy but instead prostrates herself for an unconscionable length of time before the throne. Shaw would not have liked that. Coleridge proclaimed that Helena is Shakespeare's "loveliest character." She is a far cry from that, but Miss Maxwell gives her a hefty push in that direction...
...necessary to agree with the agitprop to discern in Playwright Lamb a deft lyricist with barbed wit and a no-nonsense lucidity about contemporary man-woman relationships. Papp moves an able cast around with fluent precision; as the other woman, April Shawhan is certainly one of the loveliest warriors who ever enlisted in the battle of the sexes...
...program originated at BBC Television's Second Network. "The very simple thought I started from," said BBC-TV Director of Programs David Attenborough, "was to get on the screen the loveliest things created by European man in the past thousand years. The key decision was to tap Kenneth Clark as guide and commentator. It happened almost by accident, as Clark tells it. "They wanted advice about a series-perhaps on the history of art-and took me to lunch. By accident, the word civilization was mentioned. I experienced what Godfearing people of an earlier age used to describe...
...space. Some critics do not object to the needle itself. But they fear it would set a precedent for high-rise construction in the valley that could, in time, draw a curtain of glass and steel across the face of Telegraph Hill, obliterating one of San Francisco's loveliest views and destroying the city's overall contour...
...equal eye on both, as the fancy moves them. But some few, and among them some of the great, have had an ob session for the ugly, and seemed intent on making it uglier. Like T. S. Eliot's Webster, they always saw the skull be neath the loveliest skin. In a time when many artists have become so detached that they try to banish the figure al together, and sculptors can order their works from the nearest hardware store, a growing number of gifted artists are deeply and emotionally committed to ex pressing their distaste for the world...