Word: shallowing
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...artists in Picasso's circle with a coup d'etat against every visual convention they knew. It was a totally radical painting-so much so, indeed, that even Picasso withdrew slightly from it, and for the next several years worked to stabilize the buckling planes and shallow space in such magnificent canvases as After the Ball (18) and Still Life with Liqueur Bottle (19). Braque, unable to ignore the challenge of Demoiselles, did likewise. By 1911 they were working together, joined, in Braque's phrase, like mountaineers on a rope...
...when she was fifty-three; it seems that he made sexual overtures to her, and she, being unable to respond, lost all possibility of a heterosexual relationship, a possibility which, Cody points out, she lost at the time of Sue and Austin's marriage. Her love poetry is shallow and reflects an inexperience in adult love. Her heart was a child's heart, expressing only oral love...
...know, a certain quality of character needed to perform the thing that I have in mind. I have completely repressed all emotion; have learned to see myself in perspective, in true relationship with other men and the world. I have completely arrested the susceptibility to...give credence to...shallow unnecessary things...that lock the mind and hinder thinking...
...sixth. The Orioles tied the game on two singles in the seventh, and it stayed tied until the tenth. With one out, Frank Robinson walked, raced from first to third on Merv Rettenmund's single to center, and scored the winning run with a brilliant slide on a shallow fly ball hit to centerfield...
...novel, then, is wish-fulfillment, and on strictly literary terms, it has all the limitations of slight and shallow romance. But far more than most novels, Maurice demands to be considered on extra-literary terms. It was, after all, an extra-literary factor that delayed its publication these fifty-seven years and an extra-literary spirit that compelled Forester to write in the first place. It is a social and personal document, and the society and person are interesting enough to deserve our attention...