Word: sheer
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Where did he get that hat? Not a fetish at all, according to Johnson; it belongs to his wife and he likes to paint it, with a change of flowers from time to time. "I get sheer pleasure out of painting that hat," he says. In any case, the device of painting hatted nudes seems to be uniquely Johnson's. Even the supremely nonchalant grisette caught picnicking in the buff with a brace of fully clad gentlemen in Manet's Le Déjeuner sur I'Herbe had the delicacy to remove her picture hat before sitting...
...rascals that we are, we see right through them. (Up to Exam #40. Then our lynx-eyelids droop, and grading habits relax. Try to get on the bottom of the pile.) Again, it is not that A.E.'s are vicious or ludicrous as such: but in quantity they become sheer madness. Or induce it. "The 20th Century has never recovered from the effects of Marx and Freud" (V.G.); "but whether this is a good thing or a bad is difficult to say" (A.E.). Now, one might be droll enough. But by the dozen? This, the quantitative aspect of grading...
...gazing at a rainbow. Feininger also saw mystery in the machine, but his machines tended to come either from the past or from way off in the future. His nostalgic Old Locomotive is almost like a person-a gallant, superannuated old gentleman that keeps chugging along out of sheer determination and stubborn pride...
audience was on his feet, clapping and cheering, not for the speech but out of sheer gratitude for the building. Architectural magazines hailed McGregor Center as "delightful" and "refreshing," and the A.I.A. gave Yamasaki another of its First Honor awards. A Bit Slaphappy. As Yamasaki's body of work grew bigger, the autocritical facility of the architectural profession grew harsher - often with Yamasaki leading the pack. Critics declared the soaring interior of the Reynolds Metals Co. Building, which won a third A.I.A. First Honor Award, an impressive success; but they denounced the exterior grille, made of thousands of interlocking...
Outside the Whirl. Much of Mills's special authority derives from the sheer weight of his expertise. He is beyond dispute Congress' leading authority on taxation. His grasp of its intricacies often astonishes expert witnesses who appear before his committee...