Word: unromanticized
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"Pepicelli," the first story, by James Buechler is written in the idiom of an Italian laborer. Had it been done poorly, the prose might have spoiled the treatment of a simple mind confronted by the mysterious, in this case a motorcycle. To Pepicelli, the machine becomes a sort of magic...
- In unromantic fact the bluegrass is no bluer than the Danube. It is an intense green most of the year. When the grass is in bloom, a faint bluish haze can be detected over the meadows but only with the aid of a strong imagination and a frosty julep or...
A new world opened to him the second his shoes slid on the polished floor. That was last October. John was not the ballroom type. He was a plump, grey-haired grass widower, and the president of two unromantic family businesses: Winter Bros. Stamping Co. (auto parts) of Detroit and...
The Unromantic Law. In Newport, England, defending a store accused of price-gouging, Lawyer B. J. Hayes failed to avert the court's ?7 ($19.60) fine despite his plea: "The boy clerk and girl clerk . . . did not have their minds on their work. They were married a month later...
Wolf-Ferrari based his Ruffians on a farce by 18th Century Carlo Goldoni: two prosperous Venetian merchants arrange a marriage of convenience for their children, and, being unromantic old curmudgeons, vow that the young couple shall not be allowed to meet until they reach the altar. Their wives, being romantic...