Word: merestly
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Thus embellished, the bull is now ready for the espada, or matador; the swordsman, the killer, the hero of the day. It is to this final role that the apprentice aspires. Sometimes, through sheer braggadocio, the merest man may spring to fame overnight by leaping down into an arena if some emergency should arise at this crucial juncture of a fight. That is seldom seen, however...
...survey of the arena, and the hero steps jauntily towards his victim. He arranges his muleta as he goes, balancing his sword ' above it with arch precision. Grace is everything. The watching thousands bate their breath to see such bravery in a mincing mayfly. He makes it seem the merest trifle to approach a snorting, bloody-eyed monster where it stands at bay, to halt six paces off and pose a second, waiting for the animal to come into position; to rise on tiptoe and make a dainty death-charge, to strike home lightning-wise between the shoulders, step aside...
...visiting New York. Contrasted with the compositions of Bach, Beethoven, and Wagner, Mr. Newman says those of the French musicians, Bizet, Debussy, and Ravel, are "thin" and "lightweight". Music, then has weight? Modern developments in music prove that Orpheus was an amateur, and that Mozart and Chopin had the merest smattering of musical structure...
...October and of which Bishop William A. Leonard of Cleveland is President. The attorneys for the heretic cited 20 "assignments in error"-for example that one of the Bishop-Judges was not a lawful member of the Court, that another was not properly notified. But all this is the merest trivia triviarum. The simple truth is that, if ever there was, or is, or shall be a heretic, Bishop Brown is a heretic and knows it. Furthermore, the Bishop, having long since retired and being in fairly comfortable circumstances, cannot be materially injured by being condemned a heretic. Why, then...
...staging is distinguished by all the art and artifice of the Belasco brain and workshops. A third act rainstorm renders all the stage rain shed hereabouts as the merest filmy drizzle in comparison. The stars are supported by a large cast in the style to which Belasco stars have been accustomed...