Word: warriorism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...poetry of his time -- Baudelaire, Mallarme -- with the same sense of possession and community that Renaissance painters like Lotto, Giorgione or Titian did to Ovid's Metamorphoses. As the figures in Venetian Renaissance pastorals tend to be generic rather than specific -- "a nymph" rather than Egeria or Daphne, "a warrior" rather than Alexander -- so are Matisse's scenes of Hesiodic primitive life. We will never know what mythological event the standing nude in Le Luxe (II), 1907-08?, with a crouching woman drying her feet, represents: Matisse didn't know himself. But the antique mold was a perfect receptacle...
...ruthlessness is beyond question, his inflated legend may say more about the dreams of the impoverished people who revere him than about the man himself. He is hailed as a philosopher-warrio r, yet much of his best writing is shamelessly cribbed from Mao. As for being a warrior, while Guzman seems to have no compunction about ordering up the most foul atrocities, no one knows if he has ever killed anyone himself...
...unite the three main sects of "wingers": the better-dead-than-Red faction, whose main concern was fighting communism; the religious right, interested in moral issues such as abortion; and fiscal rebels for whom the great demons were high taxes and government regulation. Bush's cold-warrior credentials served as a visa when he crossed from the Establishment faction into Reagan country in 1980, but the fall of the Soviet Union has shattered the right's consensus on foreign policy. Bush admires pragmatic power-balance diplomacy of the Kissinger school. Others favor more crusading zeal, while still others want...
Status Quo Warrior...
From birth they were surrounded by artwork. For many of the sultans, being a gifted artist was as important as being a great warrior: Suleyman I was a poet, Ahmed III a calligrapher and Selim III a composer. Keepsakes and baubles were always in demand for birthdays and special occasions. Their studios and warriors worked overtime, and the court attracted masters of the West like Gentile Bellini. This constant infusion of diverse styles from conquered territories and visiting artists mutated and enriched the designs, resulting in art that was fanciful and sometimes outright gaudy...