Word: sighed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...chromos, Sunday-school picture books and Christmas cards. Largely, they were hack work, to be judged in the same charitable spirit as cards featuring Santa Claus, Christmas trees and blazing hearths. Either as art or religion they did not pretend to much. As Sculptor Moore himself remarked, without a sigh: "The great tradition of religious art seems to have got lost completely in the present day." What on earth had happened...
...grid Ksantel ong ong . . . What'd he say? . . . Mumbles says we've got to get rid of Kiss Antel right away." There was a knock on the door. With a reluctant sigh I put down my bound volume of Dick Tracy, muttered "Wait a minute," and tossed off the last swallow of a pre-season Tom and Jerry...
Bevin summed up the first few sessions with a sigh: "The only unanimous thing we can do is disagree...
...done this thing." Replied the 58-year-old painter: "Because no one noticed my work." Van Meegeren wanted to know what was to become of his paintings. Informed that they would be returned to the suckers who had bought them (including the Dutch Government), he breathed a sigh of relief. The court might have ordered the paintings destroyed, and thus robbed Van Meegeren of his niche in art history...
...average Manhattan gallerygoer will no longer jump and yell if confronted with an abstract maze or a surrealist swamp. But last week he had something to sigh with relief at: an exhibition as bright, pretty and woodenly realistic as a carrousel. The kale-green landscapes, rosy nudes and white-faced clowns all showed the hand of a contented craftsman. All bore a bold, neatly curlycued signature, Bombois, Clle...