Word: remindful
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...which our pornography is brutish. It is because, when the routine conventions of his work are subtracted, Boucher remains a startling and almost great painter. The sensuousness, the lively plasticity of drawing, the marvelous sensitivity to color and texture, the ironic grasp of elaborate mythologies and allegories still remind us of Talleyrand's wistful epitaph on the ancien régime - that no one who did not live before the Revolution can know the sweetness of life...
...wrote a bestselling attack on the old prejudices called Warnings Against Rightist Culture. Three years ago, he founded the Japan Lefthanders League to encourage lefthanders to come out of the closet. Today the league's 1,500 members receive a monthly bulletin to boost their self-esteem and remind them of such famous lefties as Michelangelo and Harry Truman...
...weak" Dwight Eisenhower, he would not have had a country to be President of. The U.S. can always use such dumb, weak, cowardly sons of bitches while the Trumans sit safely at home or in the Senate-waiting for the country to be saved. And don't remind me he was a captain in World War I. He was still young enough to have been a dumb general himself in World...
...attention given Bobbie may also remind people that he is articulating what many other prisoners feel but cannot express. They are terrified of the outside world and its demands, and they commit crimes-sometimes violent ones-to be returned to the security of prison. "Bobbie's case is extreme," says Warden Brewer, "but you'll find his story in every prison in the country...
...emphasis on purely physical description in their character sketches (not a word about Micavvber's improvidence). But there is rich recompense in the book's final section-248 pages of copious quotations from Dickens himself. These serve the true purpose of such a reference work: to remind the reader that the original is irreplaceable...