Word: mannerize
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...avalanche of unsettling images is both revolting and, eventually, redemptive. Bubbies' case of negrophobia forces her to explore the underside of American culture; her trip through a hell of inhuman caricatures forces the reader to confront the ugly, distorted and hateful manner in which Blacks have traditionally been resented in this country...
...actual presentation of the games goes, NBC ahs sunk pretty low. Since the day's events are prerecorded and edited together in a predictable manner, viewers can tell who is going to win from which athlete profile clips are shown...
...good. Bellows went for the pedantic structure and managed to annul the immediate and visceral character of his best work. Hence the generally tedious commissioned portraits and the stilted "refinement" of his late salon pieces like Two Women, 1924. His labored attempts at old-masterly composition in the Baroque manner included a melodramatic Crucifixion modeled on El Greco and a hammy image of a heroine of World War I anti-Hun propaganda, Nurse Edith Cavell preparing to face a German firing squad. The irony was that Bellows, in trying to turn himself into a European painter -- or what he imagined...
...basis of demonstrated financial need. Last year we were obliged to suspend this agreement because the Department of Justice disputed its legality under the anti-trust laws. Now that the Higher Education Reauthorization Act has been signed into law, we plan to resume our financial aid agreement in the manner authorized by the new statute...
With Our Next President is Our Next First Lady, dressed in a red, white and blue dress and gazing admiringly at her husband. She waves in a manner carefully rehearsed and refined during the grueling primary campaign...