Word: passionately
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...solicitor. He attended Heidelberg, and took his degree in medicine at St. Thomas's Hospital, Lambeth. His plays have been produced with varying success. Both as a dramatist and novelist he possesses, it seems to me, two distinct qualities: a feeling for the sweep and power of dramatic passion and an ability to analyze it- always cynically. It was interesting to watch him the other evening with Charlie Chaplin-Chaplin, mobile, eager, gay, as vivid as a flame and as naive as Peter Pan, yet somehow as subtle as life itself; Somerset Maugham, bending toward him, quiet, dark, reserved...
Ever since Pola had the temerity to throw herself at the American people in an imported play entitled Passion, it has been impossible to find theatres large enough to show her pictures. Accordingly reflection? that neither she nor her pictures are what they used to be are rather a waste of ink and paper...
...great poems are really huge, fat tomb-plants, great, rank, graveyard growths"; and then: " Whitman was the first heroic seer to seize the soul by the scruff of her neck and plant her down among the potsherds." He is even able to read the darkness of acute sensual passion into the Leatherstocking Series...
This last Monet gives a corner of a flower garden with the sunset showing through the Summer leaves. Its breathless passion of color draws all eyes to it. Monet is master without contemporary peer. Can he be blind...
...Observatory and at 16 was the author of the first of his numerous works, a treatise on the Cosmos. His remarkable career is best explained by a sentence from his own memoirs: "To learn, to learn without end, for the sole pleasure of knowing, has always been the dominant passion of my spirit...