Word: pointless
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Dorothy Bell" is well written, rather pointless and as yet the telescopic eye of the Sheff. note editor has been unable to discover why the chimneys of "my aunt's" house should be "comfortably smoking" while Mollie is at the same time "shading her eyes from the hot sun." Smoking with reflected heat, probably. The essay on "Modern Realism" is partly true and a little untrue in places. The writer shows a trifle of feminine mawkishness in speaking of French realism - perhaps he is thinking of Zola - though we don't believe in displaying the under side...
...Pointless doggerel, misused slang...