Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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General Moncada then informed the Associated Press that, since the U. S. was threatening to disarm his troops by force, he would do all in his power to persuade his men to hand over their arms to U. S. marines without fighting...
...continually remembers the power of the author of "Aried" to breathe life into his characters and superbly to relived. In comparison with "Ariel," "Bernard Quesnay" is rather weak. It is a disappointment that this novel is not more significant and fails to become more than moderately good...
...Saul, later to become St. Paul, with an extraordinary depth and keenness of penetration; he has vivified his subject without vulgarizing it. Indeed not the least remarkable thing about the book is the gallery of living portraits which the author paints; paints with such clearness, diversity and power that they seem actual breathing, human beings. In "Brother Saul," he has added to the charming lightness of touch and haunting melody of his style a certain strength, a subtle power that throws a brilliant light upon his characters and illustrates them through and through, while at the same time, he handles...
...philosopher, her footsteps sometimes stumbled on the ground." She is at her best in discussing the novels; frankly stating the defects of each and the length and the occasional excursions into philosophy which hold off the modern reader, she yet brings out strongly the beauty, truth and power of the author at her best. She writes as one who admires George Eliot; but who is aware of her limitations, while even more aware of her extraordinary powers...
...partly affords. Walking in the quiet hill-wood he meets a salamander, and this abrupt intrusion shatters the entity of stillness, and suddenly there is a alarming multiplication of yellow and black terrors. There is his constant desire for the compact miniature, a reality which shall be in his power to encompass, robbed of the hostility of bigness. "Salzburg lay changed beneath them the castle was as tiny as a chessman the tossing shapes of the Baroque Kollibien Kirche so frightening from his windows seemed quaint and harmless here." And there is his instinctive impulse to divide personalities from their...