Word: softly
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Among other Venetians there are Morcetto with his Baptism of Christ and a number of Amillo Campagnola's soft chiaroscuro-like prints...
...pattern, from which a retouched negative is transferred to paper in front of a light, eliminating or making prominent portions as desired. Tour printings are made on special watercolor paper, the negative being painted each time with gray or black pigments, bringing out the high lights, velvety shadows and soft lines reminiscent of Corot. One gum print requires six hours of manual labor...
...seen walking through a poor part of London (where he lives) dressed "disgracefully " in an ill-fitting suit with baggy trousers, a mis-shapen soft felt hat perched upon his massive head, carrying a portfolio of papers, nodding absently to neighbors as if he were lost in some abstruse theological question, as he marches with his characteristic swinging gait to St. Stephen's Club opposite the House of Commons...
Percy Hammond: "Excepting the soft acidities of Mr. Strachey's investigation, it is the most entertaining, so far as we know, of the impudent annals of its exemplary topic...
Presumably, however, the plan at Columbia has been drawn up to provide such necessary machinery. But there still remains a valid objection to the scheme as a whole. Of course, practical business men wil decry it as making education a soft sinecure--or a softer sinecure than they say education is at present. The objection does not follow naturally, but it may follow in this case and so throw discredit on the whole trend of the collegiate educational system. The proposal to abolish examinations has come not through evolution and the gradual growth of the desire the learn...