Word: warmth
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...that animates the face of youth. Another piece by Desiderio, a relief of the Madonna and Child, shows the same exquisite sense of surface texture and a capable realization of form in the planes of low relief. The rich color of the aristocratic bust of Giovanna degli Albizzi adds warmth and life to the characteristic delicacy of the features...
...heavy, Teutonic woman. Her program listed pure German Lieder. But people who tried to get in at the last minute were greeted by a big HOUSE SOLD OUT. Soprano Ljung-berg was one of many musicians who crowded in to hear Lehmann round out each song with marvelous warmth and eloquence...
...extraordinary personality. She personifies, more than she impersonates, a woman who, nourished by experience, faces her own age with equanimity and has courage enough not to hate her inferiors for their trivial misdeeds. What would otherwise have been a routine tear-jerker is thus strengthened with some measure of warmth and humanity. Typical shot: Miss Dressier arising in court to contradict her lawyer when he belittles her accusers...
...President's face were lines of strain and worry. Painter de Laszlo showed him in majestic mood, narrowed slightly by a be coming shadow, equipped with the dignity which Presidents so frequently require. His hands were white and soft upon his lap. On Mrs. Hoover's kind face matronly warmth was mingled with, but did not in fringe upon, a hauteur fitting for her station. Other faces on the walls ? solemn Andrew William Mellon, wise Elihu Root, martial John Joseph Pershing, temperate Frank Billings Kellogg?made it apparent that the distinction of appearing on a de Laszlo canvas could...
...story is a frivolous incident in the career of a Budapest diva. Informed that her singing lacks warmth and emotion, she is glad when she falls in love with a young man who has been observed loitering hopefully near her front door. She visits him at his apartment and succeeds in her frank efforts to have an affair with him. The comedy in this part of the action resides largely in the fact that the opera singer thinks the young man is a gigolo while the audience is sure that he is not. In what corresponds to the last...