Word: vividness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...task which Herr Mann has set himself, he has carried through with ability and perserverance, never once falling below his high standard of completeness and accuracy. He has brought before our immediate notice and in vivid coulours the tremendous elemental forces of natural life. No one who has read this book can forget the awful certainty that is death; man is a combination, as Plato said, of being and not being...
...ears. So he discovered his vocation, and in the end, came to find his field and life work along the coast of Labrador, where his brave optimism, his resourcefulness, his skill and untiring devotion, have given him a name and fame now almost world-wide. Out of this vivid little book one gets the inner meaning of the well known story, told without seeming to be told, with "an artlessness concealing...
...preface, had its genesis in the request of various friends that he "put on record" what Christ means to him. Those friends may have expected from him a measured, careful statement of his religious creed, instead of which he gives them, and us, a brief but extraordinarily vivid autobiography. In taking this course rather than the other, Dr. Grenfell has very certainly been truer both to himself and to his subject, for, as he says, "facts are still the most trustworthy and verifiable things we know of." What anything "has meant to us" is known only by the record which...
...safely announced at last that the season has turned for good. Rain has become the mild, innocuous shower bath that characterizes spring downpours, the baseball nines are in the field, the crews crowd the river, and the Vagabond has purchased a pair of vivid socks. Such indications are not to be scorneu, but the skeptic may definitely convince himself of the season by noticing his fellows during the lectures. Despite the best intentions, every eye wanders to the windows, attention follows the eyes, and then goes farther afield to the mountains, shore and great open spaces in general...
...whom one day a thing of wonder happened, and who has gone over the world seeking people to tell it to. . . ." The Book of Acts is as full of names as a map is full of cities and out of ten scores of names Bonn Byrne makes vivid people- deep-chested Barnabas; Caiaphas, the blue-horned high priest; chaste Thekla, the Greek maiden who followed Saul in boy's dress; easy Peter, shaggy John Baptist, gentle-fingered Luke. ... It is a book to read much more slowly than most. Between his rich phrases about white roses, tawny storms, bleeding...