Word: consciously
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Professor Moore, in addition, visited such other monuments in England as Shoreham, Chichester, Worcester, Gloucester, and Winchester. Furthermore, he gave considerable attention to the great choir of Westminster Abbey. This last, though it is a conscious imitation of the great French cathedral of Reims, bears traces of English influence: it may be characterized as French in conception, but English in execution...
...question of the author's talent are not illuminating. About the verse I shall not attempt to write, being poorly equipped. "Their Salad Days" seemed to me more typical of college fiction generally than of the Monthly in particular. The editorial is good in plan, but conscious and too literary. It suggests in possibility a little talk about spring that should be simpler, more honest, and clothed in the language and symbols of today,--this editorial, let us say, ten years after
...fiction, but throughout all of it is a certain sketchiness which suggests that the stories are in spirit, if not in letter, daily themes. There is firm, swift characterization in "Concerning Bores," and it is simple and direct up to the last sentence. There a touch of conscious exaggeration spoils all the effect of its preceding skill and sincerity. "A Committee of Three" seems to the present critic typical of a certain kind of college fiction, the value of which is very doubtful. It tells its story so allusively that it must remain elusive for most readers. When...
...Monday morning Dean Shaler's condition was most encouraging and the physicians had hopes of a complete recovery, but at noon both lungs again became highly congested and he sank slowly until the end came yesterday afternoon. He had not been conscious for any length of time during the last few hours of his illness, but shortly before his death he was able to recognize those about him. The use of oxygen prolonged his life only a few hours...
...holding his own. Toward the end of the week, however, he again suffered a relapse but passed safely through it, and until last Monday noon a gradual improvement was noticeable. Throughout his entire illness with the exception of the last two days, Dean Shaler has been perfectly conscious and rational...