Word: pith
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...heart-stricken awareness, as his lips express the unshakable determination, of an Abraham commanded by a higher power to destroy a life that is dear to him. In this scene, the morality of violence is brought vividly into question, and the question has seldom been answered with more pith and natural majesty...
...after years of foreign duty, a U.S. consular official came to Jefferson, Ohio to visit his brother, the famed author and editor, William Dean Howells. When he appeared on the streets wearing shorts, a pith helmet and an air of inscrutable mystery, he was nothing less than a sensation. One of those who was dazzled was Loy Wesley Henderson, the 14-year-old son of Jefferson's Methodist minister. He was disappointed to learn that the mysterious stranger was not an explorer (young Henderson had just finished reading Stanley's account of his adventures in Africa...
...waters slick with oil and glaring in the searchlights of the triumphant Japs. In the morning a raft full of wounded and exhausted sailors saw the sight of their lives-Gillan sitting elegantly on a large plank, dressed in nothing but his Mae West and an officer's pith helmet. As he swept by. the lieutenant politely tipped his topi and remarked in clipped tones, "Good morning, gentlemen...
...safety precaution to moviegoers, the Brattle Theatre is distributing pith helmets at the door...
Paul A. Freund, Fairchild Professor of Law said that "Hand is a master of law in all its phases. His quality of expression, his literary style, reflected his quality of mind. He preached the pith of the case by the shortest possible route. Everything Hand touched, from civil rights to patent cases, was given a dignity and an elevation of spirit...