Word: mortalizes
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...that human beauty is transitory. The Greeks felt that the human figure in its prime is the highest subject of art, but not, one suspects, from the unbalanced optimism about the powers of man for which they are often given credit, but from a sense of tragedy of the mortal before the immortal and of the fleetingness of youth and happiness...
...salad. And with the climax prepared, the script provides some parting philosophy. In a bullfight, the bull is the least of the enemies the matador must face. Far more dangerous is the many-headed monster in the stands-most matadors are gored because the crowd is bored. But the mortal, final enemy of every bullfighter is his own fear, confronting him in the absolute form of the great black bull. And how is that fear to be conquered? By pride-Spanish pride. The script quotes the great Manolete: "It is not hard to conceal your fear when you are more...
...Nicholson keeps his story of reckless love under perfect writing control. After it. he resorts to an old-fashioned plot development that is more fortuitous than convincing. Roger and Ida marry, and it turns out that she is being consumed by something more than love's fever-a mortal case of TB. A novel as sod-bitten and fate-haunted as Hardy's The Return of the Native thus veers towards a kind of rustic Camille. It is a token of the solidity of Author Nicholson's character-building that he can still make...
Unique Acceptance. Perhaps most important of all, President Eisenhower asked for the right to veto specific items in appropriations bills instead of having to sign or veto the bills in their entirety. The item veto would be a mortal blow to the congressional pork barrelers-and they are certain to resist it with all their might...
...practice of going steady has even "dipped into the grade schools to excite ten-and eleven-year-olds with its poison." If the situation continues, writes Author Turkel, the church may well pronounce going steady "a specific mortal sin [and] legislate on the matter as she has done on mixed marriages, and on other situations where the welfare of individual souls and family life is concerned...