Word: zestful
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...essential things about Dos Passos are his zest for color and his craving for motion. He paints in all his spare time. His books are filled with passages of glowing description. He feels everything, it seems, in terms of color?a sensualist, yes? Latin in spirit...
...stage was almost the setting for ritualistic dances. Feet, legs, arms, heads, and bodies writhed and twisted to the furious swing of panting negro jazz. For the first time in memory chorus men became not an objectionable but necessary addition, and were among the principals in ability and zest...
...these events have followed one another so rapidly that after scarcely a dozen years of airplane development there seems little more to do. In such a short time the Zest of explorations in the air seems to have disappeared...
...Eliot's mere living on that brings congratulations from all over this land and form other lands as he takes the first step in his nineties. He faces the nineties with all the zest of mind with which he fronted the tasks of his forties and fifties and sixties. A few years ago he gave, in a summary of his educational experience and advice, what some one called his "last will and testament," but it was only a few days ago that he added a codiell to meet the changes in outward conditions and to mark the progress which...
...characteristic of all readers that they would rather see an author than read another of his books. They would give ten times the price of his complete works to know that he parts his left eye-brow in the middle. What reader does not find new zest in the works of James Branch Cabell, after learning that that urbane satir ist does most of his writing at night, is proud of his distinguished ancestry, and boasts a highly protective spouse? Or in those of Joseph Hergesheimer after being told for the first time that he began life as a student...