Word: matter-of-fact
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...course, there is pathos in Stubbs' hunting scenes. His portrait of the Earl of Clarendon's gamekeeper about to cut a doe's throat in a darkening wood is a gravely haunting mixture of the archaic and the matter-of-fact. Venison, to be eaten, must be killed, but the thickening shadows seem to enfold a more sacrificial rite than the mere stocking of a larder. This, like all Stubbs' paintings, must also be seen as a manifesto of the supreme ideology of late 18th century England: the celebration and defense of property. If the wrong...
...grim tidings came in the form of polling results read to him by James Johnson, his campaign chairman. The unflappable Johnson was matter-of-fact, but the numbers could hardly have been worse. Not only had the Democratic challenger failed to gain on Ronald Reagan after the second debate, his last clear shot to catch up, but he had fallen even further behind. Said Johnson: "It looks very tough." By Wednesday, Mondale's daily tracking polls showed him trailing Reagan by 16 points, a dispiriting 6-point drop in the four days after the debate...
...mount effective insurrections. But aided by a lack of press coverage of that region Reagan has been able to play down the real consequences of his policies, making the contras sound like cartoon GI Joes fighting for truth and justice with guns that only kill Commies. The matter-of-fact Macchiavellianism of the CIA's booklet underscores the ugly truth that we are not with the good guys, which is not to imply that we are lighting them, either...
What Israeli Novelist Aharon Appelfeld relates in this brief, matter-of-fact story, more parable than novel, is the dissolution of life at the imagined spa. In volume after volume the author has been obsessed with the time of clouded horror just before the Holocaust. Two previous novels, Badenheim 1939 and The Age of Wonders, take place in prewar Austria. Tzili: The Story of a Life is a fictional account partly based on Appelfeld's escape from a concentration camp at the age of nine and his three years of hiding from the Nazis in the Ukrainian countryside...
...prevent the subject from taking over the whole book?-Foggage.Patrick McGinley's third novel, features the incestuous love of a twin brother and sister living in the Irish country side. Luckily for the reader. McGinley is to skillful to allow the incest itself to absorb the story. His matter-of-fact treatment of the details of their love and a well-crafted plot keep the story from being bogged down by free-floating sentiment or shapeless descriptions of characters. McGinley's polse, skill, detachment, and emotional thoroughness make this novel, remote through it is from American experience, an excellent story...