Word: pleasingness
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"I have just pushed aside, I confess with mounting distaste, a pile of Kennedyana on which I had been browsing, Graveyard, or memorial, prose is among the least edifying and least pleasing forms of human composition. There is a prevailing flavor of syrupy insincerity, an affectation of wholehearted truthfulness, amounting...
Since direct atomic armament of Germany is forbidden by the peace treaty, Sartori continued, the MLF is vital to Germany's full participation in the Atlantic partnership. "But," he asked, "is pleasing Germany worth the price of DeGaulle pulling out of NATO? Take away either Germany or France--really, nothing...
Spectral Tapestries. But Bonnard was not concerned with psychology. "We can abstract beauty out of everything," he said. "A painting is a series of spots that are joined together and ultimately form the object over which the eye wanders without obstruction." Bonnard's spectral tapestries are a surface abstraction...
Whale-Fodder: When the will to prominence is traumatically frustrated, or when pleasing fantasies of rank are shaken by unwitting confrontations with reality, the Jacob-Joseph complexes may become aggravated, most typically in the freshmen or senior year, into the more severe Jonah complex. Here the undergraduate feels himself engulfed...
By assigning individual scholars to one or two books apiece, the editors hope to avoid some of the pitfalls that plague other modern versions. Bibles done by committee, such as the still unfinished New English Bible, often muffle their textual accuracy in tin-eared, corporate prose; one-man translations-Monsignor...