Word: resisting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...author's theory which stands out most plainly is about love. It is that love is of divine essence, that it justifies itself, that we can not and ought not to resist it, that every one has a right to love, and that love has a right to everything. Such a conception was new in French literature. It was the outcome of Rousseau's theories and of the belief in the goodness of instinct. Later, this conception came to permeate French literature, and it was still later that we find in novels and plays the trio of the incomparable woman...
...lies beyond. The coloring is of soft grays, pinks and violets, calling for the same restraint on the part of the artist as is shown by Nature herself. Everywhere one sees a combination of great variety with the utmost delicacy and refinement,- an effect which no sensitive imagination could resist...
...could not gain as well by rushing. The line plays were not tried to any great extent, the chief reliance being placed on trick and end plays. Her defense, though twice admirable in holding their opponents for downs within the five-yard line, was not developed to resist the mass plays hurled at the line. On the whole, Harvard's defense, especially in the second half, was a trifle better, though her offense was not so good as it was a year...
...come to be so that attractive looking posters are torn down, about as fast as they are put up, by those who wish to decorate their rooms. It is thought that anyone who stops to think of the object in advertising the games through these posters will hereafter resist the temptation to confiscate them until the games come off. In other words, the collectors of posters must surely have consideration enough for the teams to let others beside themselves know of the approaching games...
...that still others will follow suit. If owners will send for a list of classes which gives the prizes offered by the Kennel Club, and will take the pains to read the list of specials printed in the Boston morning papers of Jan. 7, few will be able to resist the temptation to go in for the honors. The show does not open till Feb. 2, and closes Feb. 5, but the entries for the show must all be filed at 167 Tremont Street by next Saturday, January...