Word: portraited
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...criticism is usually appreciative. Her critical motto is a quotation from Sam Johnson that echoes her own literary practice: "Above all, he is guided by an instinct to create for himself, out of whatever odds and ends he can come by, some kind of a whole-a portrait of a man, a sketch of an age, a theory of the art of writing...
...greatest Orientalist of his day, speaker of over 20 languages, uncompromising enemy of Victorian conventions, first Englishman to enter Mecca, first to explore Somaliland, discoverer of Lake Tanganyika, famed swordsman, author of 40-odd books including a 15-volume translation in English. The result is a leading portrait in that gallery of "indomitable madmen who," as Aldous Huxley says, "have made the British Empire and English literature the extraordinary things they...
...struggle for existence between the live doctor and the fictitious medical student began to look like a fair fight. Gogarty had published in the U. S. two books of verse (Wild Apples and Selected Poems; TIME, Nov. 27, 1933) which indicated that his Joycean counterpart was merely a portrait of the doctor as a young man; this week he published a work long in progress that showed him an unmistakably three-dimensional figure, as live as a high-tension line, as individual as an Irishman...
...portrait of Massachusetts' Supreme Court Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw, looking like a disheveled bulldog in a white stock and rumpled tailcoat, taken around...
...portrait of Victor Hugo seated on a rock during his exile in Jersey, taken...