Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...figure is stout, her bust formidable, her manner blunt. Among the urbane Oxford and Cambridge tones of the House of Commons, her voice sounds rough and raucous as a Liverpool fishwife's. In the mannered cut-and-thrust of debate, her points are as emphatic as the slap of a wet cod across a face. Newspapers poke sly fun at her, other M.P.s snicker at her, county squires snort: "She's a disgrace to public life." But among her constituents in Liverpool's grimy dockland, Mrs. Bessie Braddock, M.P., is a beloved and admired champion...
Bats & Patches. But Manet's manner was even more revolutionary than his matter. He ignored the traditional chiaroscuro, the rich interplay of light and shadow, that was Giorgione's chief strength. Giorgione modeled every form with exquisite subtlety and bathed all together in soft, golden light. Manet's traditional contemporaries tried to do the same, and failed, getting a gloomy, tobacco-juice effect. But people were used to it, and found their way about in the sunless brown caves of contemporary painting as readily as bats. The "transparent atmosphere" that Manet had striven for and achieved...
...minutes later a young man attired in a pair of army fatigues appeared at the door prepared obviously to defy the ultimatum. Having been asked once again if he would refrain from disturbing the lecture, he pointed a drill at Professor Schlesinger and began to turn it in a manner which I assumed to point out more clearly his complete superiority and utter disdain. I do feel very sorry for that boy; he could not have realized what a foolish thing he was doing. At any rate, he soon left and the lecture continued...
Protestant groups have been quarreling and differing among themselves far too long, he declared, and "we have presented a devastatingly unconvincing picture to the rest of the world. Enjoined by the Lord, through the manner of our lives, to show the reality of an engaging household open to all men everywhere upon belief through God's free gift of His Son, we have too often lived a ridiculous caricature of such reality...
...faculty members welcomed Oscar Cullmann as one of Europe's outstanding Protestant theologians, author of Peter, an exegetical study of the origins of the Papacy (TIME, Dec. 7, 1953), and of a noted eschatological work, Christ and Time. His listeners found Theologian Cullmann's English fluent, his manner affable, and his occasional comments...