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His satire is incisive, but in a scholarly and humanistic way ; it does not appeal to popular passions with the fierce directness which enabled the master of Catholic satire, Thomas Murner, to inflict such telling blows.
The result of this directness was limited airplay, and there was a similar reaction when Dylan, who had also electrified to produce his own brand of folk rock, released " Rainy Day Women ♯ 12 & 35 ", with its repeating chorus of " Everybody must get stoned !".
Thackeray has Rosalind using their as a polite circumlocution, perhaps avoiding the directness of she ... her, and generic his in a context involving only women ; or perhaps with Rosalind meaning the statement to apply to people in general with Becky Sharp as an example.
In the second the influence of Miró and the drawing style of Picasso is visible with the use of fluid curving and intersecting lines and colour, whereas the first takes a directness that would later be influential in movements such as Pop art.
In contrast, Imagism called for a return to what were seen as more Classical values, such as directness of presentation and economy of language, as well as a willingness to experiment with non-traditional verse forms.
The grid plan with its frequent intersections may displace a portion of the local car trips with walking or biking due to the directness of route that it offers to pedestrians.
The geometry helps with orientation and wayfinding and its frequent intersections with the choice and directness of route to desired destinations.
Dedicated to René Le Roy and written for flute alone, this piece is lively and charming, but with the same directness of all Honegger's work.
In one of these letters, he was described by Maria van Rysselberghe, as " a unique personality, a whirlwind with an indomitable character, who didn't bother himself about bourgeois rules and who provoked or overwhelmed everybody by his straightforward directness ".
In his essay " In the End, a Beginning: The Montreal Story Tellers ", critic Keith Garebian writes: " Raymond Fraser's booming Maritime vigour and directness seem, with subtle undertows of psychological configuration, like a roaring tide battering the literary shore ... Fraser's narrative ancestors are not only the old salts of every Maritime tavern or watering-hole, but also the more commemorated figures of Mark Twain and Hugh Garner.
Eric goes on to treat Previn and the orchestra with his customary directness (" In the Second Movement, not too heavy on the banjos ") but consistently fails to enter on the conductor's cue.
Differentiation primarily impacts performance through reducing directness of competition: As the product becomes more different, categorization becomes more difficult and hence draws fewer comparisons with its competition.
One Witness history book says that while Russell was kind, warm and tactful, Rutherford " was warm and generous toward his associates but he was also a brusque and direct type of person, and his legal background and experiences in early life gave him a directness in his approach to problems in dealing with his brothers that caused some to take offense.
As he wrote in his introduction to The Biglow Papers, " few American writers or speakers wield their native language with the directness, precision, and force that are common as the day in the mother country.
The beauty of an independent and simple theme appeals to our aesthetic feeling with that directness, which tolerates no explanation, except, perhaps, that of its inherent fitness and the harmony of parts, to the exclusion of any alien factor.
It was Connolly who with characteristic directness proposed ' The Socialist Labour Party.
Rutilius may lack the genius of Claudian, but also lacks his overloaded gaudiness and his large exaggeration ; and the directness of Rutilius shines in comparison with the labored complexity of Ausonius.
The last stanza enters stumbling upon a pun, but its concluding lines are very fine, and make a sort of recovery with their forcible directness.
He has a strong broad chin and speaks with a directness that appeals to Australians ... Inevitably, he is beginning to be known in Australia as ' Aeroplane Jellicoe '.
His work is noted for its simplicity and directness and for its associations with folklore, especially when linked to his native Cornwall.
The early modern dance makers broke with European classical forms by giving into the weight of gravity, initiating movement from the center rather than the limbs, and emphasizing an emotional directness in their choreography.

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The plainness and directness of both thought and expression which characterise him were doubtless qualities of his age, but the author of the Iliad ( similar to Voltaire, to whom Arnold happily compares him ) must have possessed this gift in a surpassing degree.
Her strength lay in good common sense and directness of character ; she expressed the qualities of the British nation which at that time made it preeminent in the world.
Through the gamut of changes Willow endures in the series, Buffy studies scholar Ian Shuttleworth states that Alyson Hannigan's performances are the reason for Willow's popularity: " Hannigan can play on audience heartstrings like a concert harpist ... As an actress she is a perfect interpreter in particular of the bare emotional directness which is the specialty of writer Marti Noxon on form.
Rogers was most famous for creating and hosting Mister Rogers ' Neighborhood ( 1968 – 2001 ), which featured his gentle, soft-spoken personality and directness to his audiences.
The Hudson River painters ' directness and simplicity of vision influenced and inspired such later artists as John Kensett and the Luminists ; as well as George Inness and the tonalists ( which included Albert Pinkham Ryder and Ralph Blakelock among others ), and Winslow Homer ( 1836 – 1910 ), who depicted rural America — the sea, the mountains, and the people who lived near them.
A leading example of the new school sound is the song " I Can't Live Without My Radio ", a loud, defiant declaration of public loyalty to his boom box, which The New York Times described as " quintessential rap in its directness, immediacy and assertion of self ".
Vinci's opere buffe, of which Li zite ' ngalera ( 1722 ) is generally regarded as the best, are full of life and spirit ; his opere serie, of which Didone Abbandonata ( Rome, 1728 ) and Artaserse ( Rome, 1730 ) are the most notable, have an incisive vigour and directness of dramatic expression praised by Charles Burney.
Earlier works had attempted to summarize the semantic differences under the vague ( though preliminarily useful ) rubric of the “ Iconicity Principle ” ( see Huang and Su ( 2005 ) for a succinct discussion ), which basically posits a correlation between the degree of formal compactness of the linguistic material encoding the causative macroevent and the perceived directness of the relationship between causing event () and caused event (): i. e., shorter forms, on the whole, were posited to encode more direct causation than longer forms, as in the classic English I killed him.
The first attempt to take the analysis further, to my knowledge, was Comrie ’ s ( 1981: 164-7 ) discussion of directness and control, which began looking at the semantics of the causer and causee as possible semantic factors influencing the distribution of different causative constructions.
In what can be seen as a re-characterization of Dixon ’ s ( 2000 ) criteria ( 2 ; transitive / intransitive / ditrasitive ), ( 6 ; ‘ directness of causer action ’) and ( 8 ; ‘ causer effort ’), Shibatani argues that this hierarchy of susceptibility to causativization can be characterized in terms of the semantic role of the causer, which he characterizes, in turn, in terms of the difficulty the causer experiences in bringing about the caused event.
Boker published the original version, called the reading version, but used an acting version for the stage which had more directness and dramatic flow.
These lectures reveal all the charm of style and directness of presentation which made Häusser's work as a professor so vital.
Brown was known for the directness of his speech, which sometimes offended those around him.
Cinema critic, Perry Lam of Muse, writes that Tsang ' brings directness, straightness and a lack of nonsense to whatever role he plays, and occasionally demonstrates an uncanny ability to enter the egoless states of which only the greatest of character actors like Robert Duvall are capable.
He found it ideal-simply it permits directness and spontaneity, both of which where necessary for Josephsohn's working process.
The most important factors influencing the overall speed at which glider can fly around a given course is the average strength of the rising air the pilot chooses for climbing and the directness of the route chosen around the course ( no credit is given for deviations, but a detour to reach stronger lift can often more than make up in speed for the extra distance travelled ).

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His writing was remarkable in its time for its directness ( he frequently uses a strange second-person voice, telling you — the reader — what you are seeing and smelling as you follow a recipe ) and for his general disdain for upper-class elaborate French cuisine.

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Night on Bald Mountain, especially its original version, contains harmony that is often striking, sometimes pungent and highly abrasive ; its initial stretches especially pull the listener into a world of uncompromisingly brutal directness and energy.

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Other major club games at the time included victories over Borussia Dortmund, Valencia CF, and a 3 – 0 victory over Real Madrid achieved ' by indefatigable tackling, by the characteristic longflung pass and by a directness of approach that showed the Spanish the virtues of traditional English football '.
Except for the searching truthfulness of his vision and the powerful directness of his brushwork, it would be difficult to recognize the creator of Robert Macaire, of Les Bas bleus, Les Bohémiens de Paris, and the Masques, in the paintings of Christ and His Apostles ( Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam ), or in his Good Samaritan, Don Quixote and Sancho Panza, Christ Mocked, or even in the sketches in the Ionides Collection at South Kensington.
" Clearly avoiding the view that Pop imagery is inherently a sign of trauma, Terry Lindall employs the cartoon elements of style with a charming and often unnerving directness and simplicity, frequently aimed at causing a trauma all his own.
The passenger, Lina Szczepanowska, is a female dare-devil of a circus acrobat whose vitality and directness inflame all the other men at the house-party.
Ward's " directness and frankness often got him at odds with managers and administrators.

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