Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Blake's appearance was handsome, resolute and rather wild, with very large eyes. His theory of art excluded ordinary realism, involved an utter dependence on imagination and on clear and perfect line in rendering it. "All the copies, or pretended copies of Nature, from Rembrandt to Reynolds, prove that Nature becomes to its victim nothing but blots and blurs." What sources his work had were in Renaissance pictures which he knew through his own large collection of prints. His masterwork, done after he was 50, consisted of pencil and watercolor illustrations such as The Temptation...
Said dogged Shreck. "I just kept going." Said his wife: "It's wonderful." Said an airport friend of the flying weatherman, as a sort of explanation for Pilot Shreck's escape rather than a comment on his fix: "He never drinks or smokes...
Best blurt: Göring as a host, standing "buxomly around greeting the women guests, in his rather badly acted role of naïve confusion...
Jennie's pathetic, irritating, irrational and commonplace little rebellion is not merely an outbreak of Southern emotionalism. It is, rather, the last stand of her independence. All society, exemplified by aunts, veterans, parents and brothers, seems to be forcing her into a complicated ritual which has nothing to do with her relations with the doctor. As a result all the trappings-the flags, costumes, bridesmaids-seem as quaint and unreal as an anthropologist's description of some South Sea Islanders' marriage rite. Jennie surrenders, but only after she has discovered, by making eyes at the best...
...Most nervous diseases are explainable only by symptoms and reactions, as compared to physical diseases, for which actual parts of the body can be diagnosed," Williams said Continuing, he mentioned rationalization, the pretending that things are as people want them rather than as they really are, as the origin of many nervous diseases...