Word: unctions
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...Hergesheimer uses words with distinction and unction. They are pleasant trophies to him, to be adroitly hung about his plot, to be celebrated, to be worshipped. There are times when I like his style immensely. There are times when I do not like it at all. Yet it is far, far better to write beautifully as Mr. Hergesheimer does, and to annoy occasionally with involved sentences or word tricks than it is not to make any pretence at fine writing at all, which is the case with a multitude of his fellow novelists. There are no finer stories in American...
...recognized because he did the punting, and Way was known because he was prominent as a baseball pitcher and, besides, wore no head guard. The three centre men were impregnable, but the tackles and ends worked inconsistently on off-tackle plays and end runs. Harvard may take some unction in the fact that Yale can still be fooled by an elusive attack. Yale's basket formation for forward-pass defense, four men back, was well conceived--it was patterned after the Harvard defense--but her normal defensive arrangement of backs, three abreast, twelve yards back, is open to grave criticism...
...solicitude of Gregov, as played by O. Lyding '09; the fervor of Ussishkof as acted by J. A. Eccles '10; the naturalness of Chayim in the hands of G. D. Marti '12, the sonorous vim of the Rabbi in the voice of D. Gardiner 2L.; and the pleasant unction of Sir James Wingate in the smile of E. A. Bemis '11; or, to amplify a specific word of praise for the three-cornered scene in the third act, so admirably played by Miss Gragg, Mr. Middlemass, and Mr. Gardiner. Mr. Davis, in his speech after the third act, did well...
...reason, and prettily woos his "nymph" (who, by the way, as an oak-dweller ought to have been a "dryad") with pantheistic appeal. The rude Scythian shepherd of Marlowe, brooding upon the unattainable, has grown "very weary" of his life,' and meditates upon the theme of vanity with the unction of a Stephen Phillips. And his rough soldiers as they march, sing with Shellevan opulence of fancy...
...Well, I'll tell you," replied the Lamprey, picking up the papers that had fallen from his sleeve to the floor. "The Rev. Dr. Bonfire Burnham was just in to see me, and he told me that he feared my piety was growing lukewarm. I had lost the pristine unction. He pointed his eye right at me and said, 'Lamprey, with grief I have noticed in the last two issues of your little publication that your front cover, hitherto your redeeming feature, Lamprey, has displayed in its printed matter a latitude most unprecedented, and an obliquity never before attempted...