Word: sheerness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...know, be a great 17th century Flemish painter; and, as Guido Reni says: "A fellow who mixes blood with his colors." Yet, I am sore at my heart to confess, I do not like his large women too much. He doth seem to make a virtue of sheer flesh. But who be I to judge? One critic says: "To Rubens, flesh was enticing in its largeness, its soft luminosity, its creamy evenness of tint...and he painted it with more sense and joy and, as far as color is concerned, with more insight than any other man." Well, methinks, every...
...Emerson A at 12. This did awaken in me some thoughts how happy I would be if as a merry Vagabond I did help impress some uninspired ones that it be men who count and not courses; that it be inspiration that doth move us along as well as sheer knowledge. Indeed, methinks, there be all too much emphasis on subject matter and too little on the personality of him who doth teach and who doth learn. For what doth a man profit if he gain the knowledge of all the world and yet hath not the feelings...
...rove restlessly and sympathetically about the slums, exclaiming at scenes of squalor "How ghastly!", but he did pop off, often with Americans and nearly always to points beyond the orbit of those responsible British states men over whom the new King must now reign while they rule. For the sheer energy of this light, lean King the ruled class have a special liking, because to them so many British employers seem languid and over fed. Edward VIII is appropriately a "snappy" King. The extreme difficulty of finding for Britain a future "snappy" Queen among the eligible princesses of Europe...
Your selection ... is most unfortunate. . . . For sheer trickery and cunning, Selassie is unsurpassed and has made himself conspicuous...
Leon was an ineffectual innocent, but Uncle Elie was bad. From sheer stubborn laziness he had given up a promising career. When Leon's mother (with whom he boarded as long as she lived), had moved her establishment, Uncle Elie had stopped going to his lectures at the Ecole des Sciences Politiques, because it would have meant spending an hour a day in the bus. He had effectively broken up Leon's prospective marriage by writing an anonymous letter falsely accusing Leon of being the father of several illegitimate children. When he went to see the family lawyer...