Word: suitoring
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...resisted new architecture ever since the façade that closed the Piazza San Marco was built during Napoleonic days. Frank Lloyd Wright in 1953 tried to build a modest hanging-gardens-type palazzo on the Grand Canal, but civic fathers rejected the design as presumptuous. Now another brash suitor, France's Le Corbusier, has come to woo a place in the city that seems determined to sink into the sea unchanged...
...nothing comes of it. I've had two wives, seven children, given out dowries, supported sons-in-law. It's cost me millions! And what have I got? A bunch of enemies, gluttons, parasites." His moody granddaughter, one of the new wave, reads Strindberg, rejects the suitor whom the old man selects for her. She chooses defiantly an impecunious intellectual who talks but cannot act, who admits he is "without God, without a goal, without a skill," who has spent his life running away from life. He marries her, fathers her child, ends by neglecting them both...
...than Ben Lewis'. The son of the town's Mexican grande dame and of its late county sheriff (whose memory had been honored with Ben's appointment to the bench), he just can't seem to cope in courtship or in the court. As a suitor, he wavers between the comely Lutheran schoolteacher, who, he fears, after their first kiss, "lay awake all night awaiting labor pains," or a Mexican cousin he "would have ravished, in Fielding's glorious words," only to be prevented by her "timely compliance." His confusion leads him to doubt...
...only has a case history but a graph to illustrate it. Vividly charted for each "seven-day period" over months and years, it shows how the number of Ellen and Milt's "sexual experiences" has plummeted. Ellen warms to Harry, even though he is a love-testing suitor who stomps on her foot, rips her dress to the waist and throws her mink coat in the river. Four months later, the trio is back at the bridge, sadder still, and at curtain's drop Harry is being chased by a very persistent fox terrier...
Both mother and son are lonely, rootless people. Lizzie "was utterly separated from the whole race of mankind save when she was concupiscent." Quests for love and pleasure bring her only an unfaithful if swaggering lover and a dottering if well-meaning suitor...