Word: virginally
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Gherardo, the poor Parman is a religious rebel who gives all his money to the poor and dares combat with the Church of Rome. He is not, however, entirely a saint. His lusts lead him to betray a sympathetic virgin who later returns to help him conduct his holy reforms. Gherardo, veering like a mediaeval Elmer Gantry between his passion for this girl and his passion for reform, is led at last to betray his followers in an effort to secure her release from jail. In this effort he fails. He watches her being strangled and is then carried...
...discover in every stone an emblem, in every wind a god, imagined the unicorn, a strange single antlered creature which no one had ever seen, as a symbol for purity. It was a rare beast as well as one unreal; to capture the unicorn, one must first capture a virgin and induce her to sit still upon the ground. The unicorn, attracted by a purity akin to his own, might come and lay his shaggy, frightened head upon her lap. Then hunters might come up and kill him with their spears. In the legends written in ancient bestiaries only...
Among the recent novels of Harvard alumni that have been finding favor with readers are "Ambition", by Arthur Train '96. "The House of Sun-Goes-Down", by Bernard De Voto '20, and "The Virgin Queene", by Hartford Powel...
...other painters carried it on. But Raphael Sanzio, who died on Good Friday when he was exactly 37 years old, more than for his frescoes and his figure paintings from mythology, his portraits and historical panoramas, is remembered for being the man who made the best pictures of the Virgin Mary and her son. His portraits of her cool and smiling face have been more often copied than any other painter's; notably the Madonna of the Chair (Pitti Gallery, Florence) and the Sistine Madonna (Dresden...
This is a strangely old-fashioned situation for so strikingly modern an analysis of emotions. No realistic detail is omitted. Her refusal to omit from any given sentence any possible detail has indeed made Author Newman's style more or less famous (The Hard-boiled Virgin). Hardly a sentence but begins with a while or a when or a since, and balances itself to lengthy conclusion. Literary critic of some merit (The Short Story's Mutations), she undoubtedly knows better, so the diagnosis is reduced to that of affectation...