Word: refreshing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invented exoticism, the mode of composition in flat planes, but above all the ideal of the untutored eye unobstructed by academic culture, registering the world with the clarity, as the cliche used to run, "of a child or a savage." Rousseau's innocence might have been invented to refresh the culturally burdened. There you are, it declared: late industrialism isn't so bad, it leaves little pockets with elves like me in them. The urban primitive has no style--or rather he has one that consists of absences: no correct drawing, no perspective, no knowledge of art history or cultural...
...have to persuade all of the ten Republicans to stay with him if he is to get a favorable committee vote. Two Republicans, Charles Mathias of Maryland and Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, have been among those urging Meese to explain more fully his financial dealings and to try to refresh his memory. "Mr. Meese has some questions to answer," said Specter. Meese, in turn, accused the Democrats of making "false and misleading statements" based on "election-year politics." At the White House, Reagan vowed to support his adviser. Asked if Meese's nomination was in trouble, the President responded...
...important that you carefully think through what information will be helpful to the person who is writing a letter for you. It is important to refresh the letter writer's memory of the work that you have done for him or her. If some time has passed since you completed your work with him or her, you may want to supply materials such as the research paper you wrote or the special project that you did. You may also want to give a progress report or relevant experience since that time...
...world. After the week's events, the Communist empire could never be the same. The rest of the world could only look on with a catch in its heart, while thousands who must have known they could expect no outside aid chose, in Jefferson's phrase, to refresh the tree of liberty with blood...
...joca ("jests").... In these joca Sainte Foy overlooked no detail, no matter how small, or seemingly unimportant.... Sainte Foy helped one of [the 11th-century author] Bernard's pupils find a prayer book that he had lost in a forest near Angers. She filled a gourd with wine to refresh several hot and thirty pilgrims...