Word: screne
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...plot is happily forgotten after the first act, and everyone (or at least everyone at all important in the play) is free to fleet carelessly in the golden world of Arden. Nor do the fleeting characters present much of a problem: Shakespeare has delineated their roles with a screne certainly. Rosalind, so "full of voluble, laughing grace" (the phrase is Hazlitt's), dominates the forest, and her own investigation of the pastoral tradition is accompanied by the parallel but ultimately limited investigations of the comedy's two commentators, the material fool, Touchstone, and the melancholic traveler, Jaques...
...community was, as Governor Pyle termed it, "a lawless, commercial, undertaking dominated by a half-dozen greedy and licensed men who used religion as screen for systematic 'white slavery' and economic exploitation," it was a screne and prosperous enterprise. A visitor to Short Creek before the great raid would have found it much like any other American town, a little more prosperous than most, perhaps, because its Mormon principle of pooling cattle and grain left no one hungry...
...subject for turned-up academic noses. The contributions to political thought by such men as Professor Marx and Professor Holcombe may be limited in the fifteen precious minutes alloted them, but their words, compared to the usual radio palaver, should strike the public as gems of purest ray screne...
...quiniet of giggle ettes frina past Leavitt's their generous forms rivalled only by the generality of their smile. A seasoned Harvardian looks up, perceives, and turns into Liggett's screne in the knowledge that less-knowing classmates are secure against such sirens, the guardian watching is over alert...