Word: temperedness
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A well-tempered bustle moved me right along, past the village's new school--the sort of whitewashed adobe place where you could see the kids standing in the doorways being casual. The municipal stadium was next door--a five-foot-high grass-covered embankment keeping the soccer field from...
Even his image of peace was not wholly consonant with his own way of life. He himself was quick-tempered, contentious (in those days the Quakers were divided into two hostile factions on a question of unpenetrable ecclesiastical complexity), and this contentiousness is reflected in the portrait of him done...
A PLAYWRIGHT'S reliance on stereotypes can provide an audience with immediate gratification, with the comfortable, simplistic vision we have grown accustomed to. It can, at the same time, leave us dissatisfied. This is the primary problem with senior Peter Lawson Jones's play. The Family Line. We know all...
Another familiar face is that of Jeffrey Wayne Davies, who turns in a predictably excellent performances as King Gama, Ida's father. Gama is a grouchy, twisted troll of a man, constantly pointing out everyone's faults. "Everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man/And I can't think why...
Blake was the inspiration that led to Frye's next most important work. The Anatomy of Criticism, published in 1957. Here Frye's theory of the archetype underscores his belief that literary criticism has to get away from the 'cultured appreciation' tempered by value. judgments and acquired tastes. He presents...