Word: stylist
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Taking refuge in Dublin in 1571, Campion wrote a distinguished little history of Ireland. Waugh the stylist quotes with delight several sweet and thrifty Elizabethan sentences about the country which "lieth aloof in the West Ocean, in proportion like an egg. . . ." As a seminarist at Douai in Flanders, Campion decided to accept the military discipline of the new and militant Society of Jesus. In 1580, he received what amounted to a martyr's orders: to return to England as a missionary. After Pope Pius V excommunicated Queen Elizabeth, her government had made it high treason, punishable with death...
Princess Elizabeth was undergoing alterations. The puffs and frills of girlhood were giving way to simpler, more sophisticated (and more slimming) styles; and Designer Norman Hartnell-still mama's dressmaker-was giving way to Molyneux, the very smart Duchess of Kent's stylist...
Pure Principle. From first to last, self-schooled, slow-minded Theodore Dreiser was ridiculed as a turgid stylist and a ponderous craftsman. His critics will still find much to ridicule in this novel. Other readers may find that the slow, munching rhythm, the tone-deaf iteration, the lifelessness of epithet, are of a rocklike unity with the earnest intelligence, the upright and enduring heart, which even Dreiser's detractors give him credit for. They may also find that Dreiser was capable of a remarkable purity of communication whenever he was deeply moved. For in the words of the American...
Moreover, Miss Johnson is a loving-almost a lustful-stylist. Her fondness for soft focus, for words like flow and sift and soft and grey, makes reading her prose, for all its earnestness and frequent beauty, a little like swallowing feathers...
Once again it was Wyndol Gray who sparked the Crimson drive. Despite a physical battering by the hard-driving Jumbos which resulted in a gift of 14 free throws, the slim Ohio stylist passed and dribbled the team to its second and equally close triumph over the Medford team. By his spectacular sharpshooting, he also surpassed his previous scoring record of 25 points with a total of 28 markers, 12 of them from the foul line; he averaged one point per minute throughout the first half...