Word: boringly
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...with the freakish punctuation and typography that have become his trademark. His sunny, splashy little portraits and paintings of apple trees in blossom and luminous, leggy nudes are all done with slapdash delight; they have none of the sharpness or strangeness that make his books memorable, infuriating or a bore. Compared with his writings, Cummings' art seems as soft and wholesome as fresh butter...
...living by making artificial flowers, to bed & board with him. Almost illiterate ("She has not read a line of all my works," said Goethe), Christiane not only loved Goethe but delighted him by her absolute refusal to be anything but' what nature had intended her to be. She bore him several children. It was the hidden, human Goethe, warm behind the icy mask, who told his friend Johann Herder: "If you continue to be fond of me and a few friends stick to me and my girl remains faithful and my baby lives and my big stove works well...
Peter Maurin (rhymes with bore in) studied because he wanted to teach, for he regarded teaching as his spiritual vocation. In city streets, in buses and in quiet parks he was always beginning discussions with strangers. These conversations were not casual. Each was carefully designed to "make a point," as he liked to say; they were dialogues carefully distilled from the works of such writers as Peter Kropotkin, G. K. Chesterton and Eric Gill...
...Christian Bore. Yet, complains Author Sayers, dullness is just the epithet people most often apply to dogma, simply because the churches have lately tended to subordinate dogma to a vague, generalized effulgence of sweetness and light. To demonstrate, she concocts a short examination paper with answers that might be expected from the ordinary layman...
With the best of intentions, according to Miss Sayers, the churches have managed to portray "the typical Christian in the likeness of a crashing and rather ill-natured bore-and this in the Name of One who assuredly never bored a soul in those 33 years during which He passed through the world like a flame...