Word: somewhat
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...reflects always the ideas and feeling of the time. So, as we should expect, we find the art of this period in Florence is intellectual, perhaps somewhat dry. The work of the best artists of this time is in general harsh and severe. There are no soft color effects but the greatest productions are masterpieces of construction and line work. The coloring is usually far from pleasing, it seems even as if the artists had tried to give crude color effects as increasing the severity of the composition...
...first of the great masters of this time is Michael Angelo. He stands alone entirely distinct from all his contemporaries. His individuality was very strong and impresses itself into all his works. All his figures are of a somewhat gloomy type, but all are strong and majestic. He had none of the gentler or finer qualities essential to the painter, for he was not a painter, as he himself said, but a sculptor. He had a great command of line and was probably the most wonderful draughtsman that ever lived. His subjects are almost all religious. He had many followers...
...monthly for February is more than usually devoted to fiction. The number opens, however, with a somewhat lengthy consideration of "The Humour of Caucer," by J. B. Holmes, prolonged to such an extent that the interest of the reader is in danger of flagging before the end is reached. The articles which follow will be more pleasing to the average mind,- a poem called "Louie Rae," by Bliss Carman, and three stories...
...club begins the season somewhat in debt and the officers are anxious to increase the membership of the club so as to raise the necessary funds for the Philadelphia trip...
...meeting of the Harvard and Yale baseball representatives at Springfield on Monday lasted but an hour and was very satisfactory to each side. Some important changes were decided upon and will be adopted soon. Under the new rules the power of the umpire will be somewhat restricted. Hereafter he will be unable to order a player from the field...