Word: morbidities
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...there any stylistic distortion of facts to account for the impression the book makes, any morbid autorial analysis such as the "expressionism", that insane effect produced by filtering all impressions through the distorted vision of one character. The style is not in the least hysterical. The treatment is entirely objective...
...origin. They are doing nothing to keep alive the ideals and institutions of free constitutional government. They are trying to debauch and debase every Senator and every public man who refuses to turn his back upon his country to surrender his convictions and obey the behests of selfish, morbid, contemptible and corrupt dollar aristocracy...
...story "morbid and repellent beyond degree...
...Osborn: "A story morbid and repellent beyond degree. . . . The only satisfaction which its presentation involves-a purely and coldly artistic one-is in the acting of Mr. Herbert...
Hannele. Funeral parlors dramatized, with typical obituary poetry thrown in. Gerhardt Hauptmann's morbid work has been revived at special matinees seemingly so that Eva Le Gallienne may have a good time dying. In the almshouse of a mountain village, she moans and moons through dreams of her mother and of a lover. The big moment comes when she dreams herself into a crystal coffin for the sheer pleasure of expiring in it. A dank, doleful play...