Word: certain
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Generally speaking, there are two kinds of religious paintings. The first kind, in order to be appreciated, requires a certain amount of previous religious feeling. Its subject, whether it be the Madonna or Christ, is what moves and stirs the spectator. The technique and sincerity of the artist is of incidental importance. The second kind of religious painting is executed without any dependence upon the subject or on the spectator's already present attitude toward it. The artist relies mainly upon his ability to inspire a new and fresh feeling: he does not base his painting upon the presupposition that...
...wake: "About five on Sunday morning . . . when the faintest grey of dawn appears in the east, an ancient pilot stationed in the forechains of La Galante sees a black cone on the horizon pricking up into the dome of paling stars. He climbs cautiously to the foretop to make certain, and sings out Albricias! Que tenemos tierra...
...provision of a suitable marriage portion practically guaranteed to attract an acceptable fiance. Or if there is no money for a dot then she rationally faces the alternatives of spinsterhood in its more or less appetizing forms. These in France can be either. The French spinster escapes certain laws which her smugly married sisters take as a matter of course, laws which definitely make the French husband master in his home. For example, a wife cannot go on the stage, open a bank account or obtain a French passport without her husband's explicit consent...
Although Dr. Steinach was violently attacked by medical authorities ten years ago, hormone specialists today smile indulgently at the mention of his operation. They doubt his claim that four-fifths of his patients regained their virility, think suggestion was the more powerful factor. Certain it is that vasoligature does not relieve high blood pressure, angina pectoris (heart attack) or arteriosclerosis (hardening of the arteries). Although Steinach's critics admit a few outstanding cases where vitality was restored to younger men, the tissues of old men cannot be made to grow profusely, let alone pour forth hormones...
...gave nearly a hundred recitals on my last tour. ... I played certain works so often that I couldn't hear them any more, even while my fingers were performing them...