Word: rabelaisian
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...entered a railway bar at Saint Brieuc and ordered cognac. The bystanders gazed longingly, so the cleric cried: "Set 'em up for the crowd!" His popularity grew; and at the third round there were three cheers for His Grace. After the fourth round, the "priest" indulged in Rabelaisian tales which shocked even the Breton topers. An investigation followed; and the convivial host was discovered to have been formerly a lackey of the Polish diplomatic mission in Paris...
...ointment," he still is carried on-the helpless victim of a mirage-by fleeting glimpses of the woman that she might be. The book is profoundly analytical, studied with something of the grim irony that pervades the Spoon River Anthology. Its philosophy shifts at times from an almost Rabelaisian turn to Oriental mysticism, and back again...
Mary Eaton's name is prominently displayed in the electric illumination above the playhouse. Her fine flavor of respectability made an excellent foil for Cantor's semi-Rabelaisian style of turbulence...
...bitter mind, all suddenly are brought to bear upon the impossible and it is accomplished. He does too much. His plays just miss being brilliant. His novels suffer from a lack of taste which would undoubtedly be ironed out in a second writing. When he started to write a Rabelaisian fantasy in Fantazius Mallare he was only adolescent in his pornography and was consequently affected. His last book, a detective story, The Florentine Dagger, he claims to have written in ten hours. It's not a bad yarn. I am told, however, that, dictating as rapidly as one is able...
...utter futility of Man's days on earth, and the frailty of his very work. With this as the dominant note, one might expect a Maeterlinck gloom to pervade the whole, but such is not the case. Andreyev was fortunately gifted with a unique sense of humor--almost Rabelaisian at times, and this flashes cheerfully forth at opportune moments. More than this; it never enters a really critical situation nor spoils a perfectly rounded and intensely dramatic picture of grief. Andreyev's humor is under control at all times. In his use of symbolism he is elusive to an almost...