Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...relations between men and women, particularly in bed; 2) unwholesome class stratification in English society; and 3) the evils of industrial civilization. That his book was revolutionary at the time is beyond question. In a way it was briefly important, though it contains some of Lawrence's most wooden writing. The characters are talking symbols, and when Mellors and Connie do come to life in the lovemaking scenes, the reader, conditioned though he may be by modern novels of lesser stature, is not so much shocked or moved as embarrassed by Lawrence's curious, four-letter vulgarity...
...first-born sons with blood. The priests will hand around bitter herbs and unleavened bread. The slaughtered lambs will be cooked. Facing the summit of the mountain, the priests will chant with mounting fervor as the Samaritans squat or kneel on the ground, wearing wide cloth belts and holding wooden staves-"and thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord's passover...
...cricket field has two wickets placed 22 yards apart in the center of the playing area. The wickets consist of three "stumps" stuck into the ground with two "bails," small wooden pieces, resting over the tops of the stumps. A wicket is "lost" when a batsman lets a ball thrown by the "bowler," go by him and hit one of the stumps, thus knocking off one or both bails...
...Pleasure of His Company. Overage International Playboy Cyril Ritchard returns to the family hearth just in time to throw his daughter's wooden fiance on the fire...
...glittering success. He had mastered a broad and airy impressionism, not so brightly lit as that of his French masters, but softly luminous. What queered his career was a strain of fantasy: he introduced into his atmospheric pictures incidents of a naive sort-lubricious, melodramatic (as in Jealousy), somewhat wooden...