Word: patterning
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...microscopic detail of Naturalism, and like the French painters of her own generation, turns to simplification and to the basic problems of Life. TIME expresses her ideas better than any other critic has done. Says TIME: "The lives of human beings are even less observable indications of the same pattern but serve to mark the wavelike motion of life's force." Doesn't this serve as the final and complete explanation of Clarissa Dalloway and Septimus Smith...
...revealed, but this does not make the preliminary scene that fools you any less deceitful. Ann Sothern (the escaping heiress) is nice enough, we suppose, and so is Don Ameche, but the only really worthwhile acting is in the bit parts. And even these are typed on the old pattern...
...pancake and that the film was 15 times thinner than the spherical diameter of one molecule. "This lends support to a theory," said he, "which has recently been advanced that all proteins tend to spread out on surfaces and when they do so they all have a similar lacelike pattern...
...enough to rescue him, but goes and fetches him up at the very last minute, when he learns what a wicked siren he is married to. There is no objection to the familiarity of these elements; one might only wish that they were joined together in a slightly different pattern. Still, if you don't mind seeing a show a third or fourth time under a new name, and if you like lusty, elemental drama, you'll have no kick coming. For Richard Dix, Chester Morris, and Dolores Del Rio do their respective tasks to perfection. Before the caviling mood...
...lives of human beings are even less observable indications of the same pattern but serve to mark the wavelike motion of life's force. Nearest that common readers can get to Virginia Woolf's prose meaning: human nature does not change, it only seems to, like the particles of water moved by a wave. Thus her characters are not so much individual people as aspects of human nature: human particles in the moving wave of time...