Word: vehement
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Madame Eleanora Duse, who was first seen in this country only two years ago, is not less remarkable, in her own most modern way, than the two players already named. The completeness with which she lives her character in the Cavalliera Rusticana; her quick, vehement, peasant-like gestures; her clumping across the stage in awkward peasant shoes; her subsidence toward the end of the play into a hooded statue of grief, are exhibitions of her talent which will be remembered even longer than the untheatric pathos of her "Camille," or the bewitching gaiety and extraordinarily mobile skill of the coquettish...
...towards Polyeuctes; she is utterly blind to the greatness of his character. But in the prison scene after Polyeuctes has made his offer of sacrifice, Pauline for the first time seems to feel the grandeur of his being, it is no longer in words of cold sympathy, but with vehement love, that she addresses...
...Brown '92, followed, and asserted the utter indefensibility of the conduct of the United States. He restated in a vehement manner the points brought up by the previous speaker, viewing them however from the negative side...
...word of fraternal exhortation, - "Support" everything! (1) Send your subscriptions at once to the managers of the various athletic teams, and not compel them to call upon you many times in vain - in this way supporting also the cause of morality by removing the cause for much vehement malediction. (2) Bring your lady friends to the winter meetings, and thus increase the meagre treasure of that most energetic and praiseworthy organization, the H. H. A. Support the college press, the "Advocate," the "Lampoon" the "Monthly," the CRIMSON, not only financially, but above all by literary contributions. The Yale papers...
...people face life with a little more calmness and intrepidity; we might expect to find less self-accusation and less of what is called righteous indignation. For if we came to regard wickedness as misfortune and monstrosity rather than sin, we should not find it necessary to be so vehement in our condemnation of wrong doing, since we should not feel so much secret sympathy with it. Even now, who of us in his heart would not be a rake rather than a hunchback, a villain rather than a fool? In spite of all the moralists, we cannot admire desert...