Word: moralising
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The boy doesn't die, of course. The moral ofthe story, as we learn in the play's clumsyclosing monologue, is that adulthood is aboutchoice. This idea about the dangers of growing upwas revelatory when we, growing up, actually beganto discover it for ourselves: it was notrevelatory when we figured...
Ruisdael's work bears traces of many older attitudes. The impossible God's-eye view of a remote earth from above, as done by 16th century artists from Altdorfer to Leonardo, was echoed by Ruisdael in a small panorama of Amsterdam seen from the scaffolding of the unfinished...
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