Word: spaciousness
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...Copeau and Jean Croue (translated into English by Rosalind Ivan) would be found to contain the full literary significance of Dostoievsky's novel, though wanting in dramatic fulfillment by reason of its uncrystalized theatrical version of those spiritual gropings which gave even Dostoievsky a bitter struggle on a more spacious field...
...McKinlock and the dining halls of the Business School are already at a premium. This is not in the least surprising as both projects were designed with a careful eye to the convenient and the aesthetic. Studying Freshmen are consoled by handsome woodwork, pots of geranium, and a spacious alcove with a fireplace. The business men's professional fatigue is more than soothed by the arts of the former culinary overlord at the American House. And these things are within the gates of the respective consumers...
With the years a spacious legend, heavy with the frankincense of gold, has grown up in grey Wall Street about the New Year's Eve of the great House of Morgan. It is told that as the old year passes the Morgan partners assemble in the low chunky marble building which stands at Broad and Wall Streets, the solid fulcrum of the business world. They come to sit in quiet, awful council while Mr. Morgan apportions to each his share of the firm's profits for the previous year. Naturally the largesse of a Morgan is always large...
...Royalist, however much he has become an Imperialist. He may logically desire a reversion to the awful Roman Republic of ancient and glorious days. In the unfolding of such a drama his first role would be Julius Caesar and his last that of the Emperor Augustus. The dream is spacious, redolent with grandeur...
Through the chaos of relationships, strained and tortured, William moves prayerfully, tolerantly, so genially that his good Kate is estranged. He sustains his erring child by letter; providentially he injects the solvent of good nature into the too-feminine atmosphere of his spacious home. With his morning flower in its accustomed place, his quizzical brows alert, his disquieting remarks and bright-eyed scheming, his gait still reminiscent of the sailor's roll, he is the captain of his hearth, steady in domestic storm as in the days when (before magnatehood) he spoked the wheels of tall ships. The family...