Word: sheering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Perhaps most arresting of all is John Sell Cotman's "Sheer Hulks in the Midway", a marine masterfully done in dark, sinister tones; one can almost smell the fitful gasps of fresh sea air puffing up before the approaching storm...
...many of their officers are sprung from the Japanese peasant class, the class mercilessly ground down to starvation wages and despair by entrenched Japanese middlemen ; the agglomerations of Capital held by octopus-like "family corporations"; and, lastly, by the amazing Japanese speculator, price-chiseler and profiteer who for sheer ingenious rapacity is in a class by himself...
...dastards and not a regular army man. With the Empire cut off from the world as Japanese censors clamped down on cables and radio, the August Land of the Rising Sun or Dai Nippon (as Japanese poetically call their Empire) faced the World with a blank wall of sheer Mystery. In Washington the State Department, for all the erudition of its Far East Section, knew nothing for certain, was as much out of contact with Joseph Clark Grew as though he had been U. S. Ambassador to the Moon instead of Ambassador to Japan. The Department busied itself writing...
Give Us This Night* (Paramount) is three-quarters sheer melody. Its ballads are the most advanced light opera music yet composed for cinema, and it contains one scene of cinema's first original grand opera-a balcony scene from a work called Romeo & Juliet of which only a few skeleton scenes were ever written. All the music except a short interpolation from Il Trovatore was composed by Erich Wolfgang Korngold, whose Violanta and Dead City have been given at the Metropolitan and who arranged the Mendelssohn score for Warner Brothers' Midsummer Night's Dream...
...campaigns, not by battles; he had phenomenal luck ("nobody could fight Caesar without making fatal mistakes"). And by the time he came to grips with Pompey for the mastery of the civilized world Caesar had become a pretty good soldier after all. "He made himself a great general by sheer thought." Now his tactics were "impromptu" but "dazzling." Readers closed the book feeling not unlike rubes whom another high-binding barker had fooled again...