Word: morbidness
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...enough for college dramatic clubs and workshops merely to advance the mechanical technique of staging plays. A race of dramatists is even more necessary. If the prediction to Halcott Glover that by a rebirth of idealism drama will be swung from its morbid tendency to realism and attain its true "place in human and international under standing" is correct, it would seem that the first signs of a dramatic revival ought to appear in the work of college and universities; for seeds of idealism find but scant nourishment along. Broadway Should Princeton's new theatre inspire talented dramatists as well...
...there any stylistic distortion or facts to account for the impression the book makes, any morbid autorial analysis such as the pseudo-psychological novelists affect, any "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. The author records his chronicle of scenes and persons and action with an abundance of that sort of exact detail which makes "realism the only method for romance." If his style maybe said to ring with any prevailing tone, except the tone of accuracy...
...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...