Word: surfeits
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...indeed, dominates the work of Kollwitz now being exhibited at the Germanic Museum. Not Death as in the silent senseless repose of the dead, but Death hanging over slowly departing life; not Death which comes suddenly, mercifully to the well-born for whom it is the apoplectic end of surfeit, but Death which racks life from the poor with retching hunger, foul disease, the constant ache of physical exhaustion. Death is here no surcease but a prolonged torture. The artist conveys the sense of this by unnaturally hollowed and skull-like faces, by hands which are bony in spite...
...offensively scandalous. They are like the quiet but compelling conversation of a man who has seen the world and not missed much to the point. Sentimentalists find Maugham cynical, but in fact he is a psychological realist. Even sentimentalists find his common-sense melodramas refreshing after a surfeit of romance. This collection of stories is dedicated to one Ah King, a Onetime Chinese servant of Author Maugham's, who traveled with him for six months, served his master perfectly but inhumanly, surprised him when they said good-bye by shedding tears. The title's only relevance...
...sensitive dentist's lot is not an altogether happy one. He suffers an alternate surfeit and famine of affection. Sitting in a dentist's chair seems to make some women grow embarrassingly amorous. And, in his professional capacity, almost nobody else loves the dentist...
Seven cats on the top floor of Boylston Hall are at present the objects of an exhaustive research by W. A. Bausfield 4G, who is constructing graphs on the tentative tastes, consuming capacity, and final surfeit of these felines. Two CRIMSON reporters viewed the experiment yesterday...
...coming to Boston. Some are intended for the French-speaking and German-speaking population of Boston, while others transcend the language of their origin and recommend themselves to any intelligent audience. Such a film is "Das Lied vom Leben," with which the Fine Arts Theatre is relieving that vacation surfeit of Hollywood happy-endings and Grand Rapids repartee...