Word: vibrant
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...vibrant, airy landscapes of Claude Monet, worshipper of sunlight, rapt student of motes, beams, the subtle tones of shadows. More than any other man, Monet epitomizes the impressionist movement, the realization that perceptual reality is not composed of insulated objects each of characteristic colors, but is rather a play of shapes at once defined and related by the one blazing spectrum...
...Vistula, Pripet, Upper Dniester rivers. At nightfall they huddled in their river bank encampments, shuddered at the moan of the werewolf, the fleet shadow of Baba-Jaga, man-eating witch. Meanwhile their more venturesome brethren, scowling pirates of the Aegean and Baltic, forgot their ferocity beneath a vibrant pattern of stars...
...orchestral cellar and has revealed him to us as a creature who does not merely gambol with grotesque ponderosity, or grumble in discontented servitude, or speak oracular solemnities, but who can sing with pride and independence and lyric fervor, with something of the cello's poignantly vibrant utterance in its upper register, yet with a fullness of body, a dark and beautiful austerity, and an amplitude of sombre richness that no cello is able to attain...
...self-portrait seemed to link his face with his own favorite Tahitian fruits; the sardonic humor of the piece was queer but clear. He displayed also a serene Breton landscape, a lovely canvas which could cause no retching among the most conservative. Forain's aphrodisiac The Charleston showed two vibrant white dancers, several paunchy satyr-spectators, was a triumph of contemporary comment. Picasso's The Mother, a suggestion of haggard peasantry, was as successful in another field. There were gusty, sulphurous landscapes by de Vlaminck, fanciful figures in delicately modulated colors by Eugene Zak. The net effect...
...spirit was lively, vibrant, domineering. Such are qualities religious chiefs since Mohammed have had. They stir their crowds; they tingle their emotions; they daze their thoughts; they get. adulation and money. Joseph Smith and Brigham Young did that with the Mormons, John and Charles Wesley with the Methodists, Moody and Sankey with the evangelicals, Mrs. Eddy with the Christian Scientists. Judge Joseph Frederick Rutherford is doing likewise with the International Bible Students, Mrs. Annie Besant with the Theosophists, Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson with the Four Square Gospellers. Theirs have been as much a profession of new business as a profession...