Word: matter-of-fact
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Although Miss Brody's style is as unadorned and matter-of-fact as the people it portrays, the story has its dramatic moments, and were it not for the fact that the author employs the time-shift with only half the ability of let us say Ford Madox Ford, which sweeps us from scene to scene and backward and forward, her novel would be comfortable to read...
...hero," a "heroine." its attack on U. S. economic conditions in general, on small-town banksters in particular, should raise more proletarian huzzas. Plain readers will find it uncomfortably interesting reading. More effective as anti-bankster propaganda than a more straightforward indictment, Cash Item is writtten in bare, matter-of-fact, day-to-day style. Authoress Brody lets her ordinary people's hopeless predicament and helpless indignation speak for themselves...
First, it brought forth a heroine. Lucrezia Bori, whom New Yorkers had viewed in a matter-of-fact way as a dainty, satisfactory operatic soprano, became suddenly a capable, hard-working money-raiser, speaking in her charming, broken English at opera performances, club luncheons, society dinners, signing letters of thanks even to people who sent in as little as a dollar...
...professorially possible. Chaucer was not always perfectly smooth; neither is Professor Krapp. Although some will still rather read Chaucer than any "translation" of him, a great many present-day readers will prefer Krapp. By & large the "translation" faithfully preserves the tone of the original -slyly ingenuous, disarmingly matter-of-fact. The story of Troilus & Cressida, which Chaucer cribbed from Boccaccio's Il Filostrato, will never be old-fashioned or out-of-date. Troilus. a younger son of King Priam of Troy, falls head over heels in love with Cressida, a comely young woman whose father, soothsaying Calchas. has deserted...
...convent, she has strange ideas of martyrdom for Ireland's sake. She talks fervently of a plan to meet the threatened invasion-to surrender parts of Ireland without resistance, in exchange for parts to remain unmolested, where Irish culture, Irish religion can be preserved. To matter-of-fact Brigid this is nothing but schoolgirl's talk; but Catherine, with her saint's face, wakens a kind of fanaticism in Allen-her fervor makes her ideas seem feasible and right...