Word: understatedness
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His acclaim stemmed from four collections: Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? (1976); What We Talk About When We Talk About Love (1981); Cathedral (1983); and Where I'm Calling From (1988). Carver's stories also became a staple in Esquire during the 1970s and the New Yorker in the...
The first track up is this one, and it is a joy. And I was immediately transported back to the Jones I know and love. Though at first listen it appears to be a somewhat forbidding dirge - a slow-paced recitation of the good deeds that will put one on...
Harvey, who is second in the nation with a 96.4 percent free throw average, was just as stoic and understated after the game as he was at the line.
A few hundred words in a college newspaper could never do justice to the praise of Polly Jean Harvey, who, after growing up on a sheep farm in Britain, became one of the finest indie musicians of our generation. Nevertheless, this small blurb seems the perfect place to appropriately acknowledge...
"With levelly understated lines, it's elegant without being overstated," Oles says. A special item to spice up signatures and love letters, or just a luxurious way for your friend to do her problem sets.