Word: mood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vindictiveness that is not to be found in most authors. That the attempt to blacken the name of Rome is more or less intentional is shown clearly by the preface, and throughout the work there is a use of invective that would have shamed even Cicero in his bitterest mood...
...that time until the present day there has been a steady increase in the number of students either majoring or electing certain courses in the Department. One has only to see the groups which gather in New Fogg to realize that the undergraduate is taking his aesthetics in a mood which is not merely that of a dilettante. His interest in the Fine Arts rises not from any artificial or forced impetus but from his own desire to investigate the field. And it is this tendency which would have delighted Charles Eliot Norton--for this is the manner with which...
...years later another picture (A Cup of Tea by Mr. Knight) was sold. Next, they went to Holland where their work became dusky, grey, contemplative. Stubbornly refusing to paint pictures solely that they might sell, ana thereby condemn the creators to continue painting in the same mood, they went to Cornwall. On this stormy, cloudswept coast they discovered color, gaiety. Ten years passed and galleries began to buy their pictures. They won scholarships, medals, salon prizes. They are now represented in famed museums, chiefly English, all over the world. They live in St. John's Wood, London, surrounded...
...Significance. Mark Sullivan has made a new definition of history. While wars and elections, battles and discoveries are a part of the record of a given period, they are really important only as they hint at the mood or character of the people who take part in them. To understand a nation, it is necessary to know more than its constitution and its language; the more complete history becomes, the more humble, the more complex and the more exciting it becomes. But as it grows more complex it grows harder to write; selection becomes a game of chance; order...
...precocious age of 16; called it Violanta after his heroine, a lovely enough Venetian lady who hated and lusted and loved and died in such swift turn as to gray the hair of any onlooker. Jeritza played it for all there was there, took every phrase, every mood, tight between her teeth, shook them hard, tried to make them answer back, got small return...