Word: recursiveness
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Plenty of Nothing. Author Sagan's prose is as disciplined as her characters are not. Her style is spare, lucid and psychologically astute. Yet her novel is a petition in spiritual and emotional bankruptcy. The word "nothing" recurs with obsessive frequency in describing what the heroine thinks and feels...
Mann's familiar style supports his efforts as well as ever. There is the firm German repetition of motif. We are constantly reminded of Krull's nakedness and his false drapery of forms and decorum. His costumes--which bolstered his youthful fancies--become foreign tongues and social manners. His adaptability...
Through the early selections, Engels' conception recurs frequently. In his contribution, a lecture delivered at a time when counter-revolutionary forces were powerful, Lenin affirms this doctrine.
In most cases the illness recurs every seven days, or in multiples of seven. Some patients' cycles get longer or shorter over the years, and some never fit the weekly pattern.
Marc Chagall, a wanderer at 60 as he has always been, recently moved to the south of France and resolved to take up ceramics. But he continues to paint lush, lyrical fireworks of color. Referring to the image of the floating man that continually recurs in his paintings, Chagall says...