Word: devoid
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...homes. But neither these nor similar methods of bringing the student closer to his teacher has quite succeeded in training mentor and pupil to the realization that each is, after all, more than a machine. Too often the platform lecturer is led to believe that his listeners are entirely devoid of humanistic attributes. Therefore whatever can be done to demonstrate that good instruction is appreciated and that a year of talking to impassive faces has not been a barren year is not unwelcome. As in a theatre, the noise of an applauding audience means nothing in itself and occasionally disturbs...
Flying a straight course is as devoid of sensations as sitting in a placid hammock-except when the air is "bumpy." Air currents shooting up over hills and mountains, diving down over seashore cliffs and into valleys, make flying bumpy, cause a plane to rise or sink suddenly. Even on a day that is calm and sunshiny, there may be bumps...
...care to renew for the same reason that I do not care to eat, perched on a stool. You have succeeded admirably in dishing up a mental fare that is devoid of all the things or elements except the chemical ingredients of information...
...today, to designate that type of painting most readily associated with the thought of an Art Gallery. Such drawings usually form part of a group within which only experts can distinguish the light of an individual hand--a playground for pedantry, enchanted with the name "Old Master", but devoid of significant, spontaneous vitality. In the current exhibition, there are but fifteen men represented, but the collective gesture of those fifteen is sufficient for a long period or art history and for many phases of genius. For such "esprit", there are few boundries. Individuality is easily discernable...
...read the Crimson with mingled feelings of pleasure and envy (for I used to heel the News), it was a keen disappointment to me to pick up the first issue of the Crimson that I had seen in three years, and to see that the incumbent board is apparently devoid of sense of humor...