Word: poeticizing
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...also an accomplished artist, painting in oils and watercolors. He swore in multi-syllables, interspersed profanity between dictionary words, such as: "This is the most non-Goddamn-son-ofabitching-sensical suggestions I ever heard of!" Nobody since Joseph Pulitzer Sr., who invented multi-syllable swearing, had heard such poetic loquacity...
Room for Change. The revised English version has already gone to U.S. Catholic publishers. Its language is, in most cases, a fresh, understandable, remarkably successful distillation of international English-plainspoken perhaps, but often poetic. Some foreign countries, such as Japan, have chosen to prepare their own translations from the English rather than the Latin text...
Tennessee Williams has always made three demands: On himself, to give poetic lie to Nietzsche's dictum that tragedy is dead. On his audiences, to see through his melodramatics to the philosophical skeleton. On his adapters, to preserve the illumination as well as the heat of his intense personal vision...
...home with his years and his blindness. By 1955, his sight was nearly gone. "I stopped wasting time at movies," he jokes. But he actually began an intensive study of Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse to enjoy the odd lore about monsters and dragons as well as recurrent poetic devices-known as kennings-"whale's path" and "swan-road" for sea. For relaxation he is read to, mostly from favorite writers whom his intellectual admirers disdain: Kipling, Conrad, Stevenson. "Time flows differently for the blind," he admits. "It flows easier. I am not bored when I am alone. Circumstances...
...riskier mysticism of earlier, passionate orthodox kissers. In fact, after dealing with Castiglione, Perella registers a marked decrease in ardor for his major subject. The concluding chapter on the Baroque end of the Renaissance is not much more than a listless compilation of variations on kissing themes embellished with poetic examples. It is almost as if the professor had tired of cultivating his index cards and longed to be out doing field work...