Word: realist
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...argue that their dissections are merely application of the scientific method in the search for truth. But there is truth and Truth. It is truth to say that Walt Whitman had perhaps half a dozen illegitimate children, and it is Truth that he was a truly great poet. The realist biographers are more interested in the petty truth...
...justice to the Holy See." Such well-meant words are little more than wasted breath so long as the potent Pietro Cardinal Gasparri continues Pontifical Secretary of State, and voices now and then his unalterable opposition to a compromise with the Civil Power (TIME, Feb. 8). Cardinal Gasparri, realist, is conscious of the value of that dramatic martyrdom which surrounds His Holiness as the "Prisoner of the Vatican...
...with great solicitude for the antique rhythm and consonance of his finical phrases, but his passion for beautiful happenings has been lapped by the irony of surfeit. Either that, or things in Poictesme†are working out to natural conclusions and Mr. Cabell, as a determined realist, reports them with a deciduous emphasis so that no misapprehension may remain. Queen Freydis has faded. The hair of Melicent, once a golden net where dreams were tangled, will grow straggly and fall out. The Domnei idea (worship of women) has proved wholly untenable, and no one ever discovers a posset or cantrap...
...primarily for the intellectual ecstasies to be experienced in examining noble works of the human mind (though these ecstasies are well known to him), but for the immediate benefits to society that might follow, if all men took thought or honored the wise men of their time. A realist, he does not despair of the Golden Age in a time of crass opulence, but sees this country as an adolescent that has really done extraordinarily well to produce a Dewey so soon. The country might well take unto itself another compliment for having produced a Will Durant. The Significance...
...join the exhibitions of the Impressionists and she accepted with enthusiasm. Her style sustained an immediate and vast improvement; she lost the literary quality that had impaired her early efforts and began to work more blandly. She still dreamt sentimentally of motherhood, but she painted her concept like a realist; her children's eyes were the holy, sightless eyes of Correggio's cherubs but their bodies were the bodies of minute Frenchmen, hired for thirty francs a week in a Paris atelier, and drawn with surpassing skill. The great museums began to buy her pictures. Very...