Word: rhythm
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...muscular black men; big Negroes with rhythm in their shoulders; strong, dark prophets of the Lord leaning far out from the warning places; holy fire in their eyes, holy rhythm in their sway, holy words rolling out from their mouths of wisdom; softly now, then louder, getting deep when they roar of the Fiery Furnace; thundering the Lord and his works on Sinai; now softly again, slower, crooning how the Lord was in his good works at little Jerusalem; sobbing how the humbler Lord was broken and crucified by the white soldiers; and then blaring it out, then trumpeting brass...
...work of art is great, and we are baffled to trace the connection between the personality and environment of an artist and his message. These problems are often more acute in music by reason of the indefiniteness and mystery of the constituent factors of the art in sound and rhythm; and at the same time more easy of solution because of the direct appeal which music makes to our entire being, physical, emotional, intellectual, and spiritual...
Saturday's race, which was rowed under decidedly unfavorable racing conditions, made the fifth consecutive win for crew X, which displayed remarkable watermanship and a rhythm of stroke clearly superior to that of the other boats...
...anthem at all times worthy of his theme. There are occasional exceptions, but they are unimportant and are enormously overbalanced by the many passages in which the poetry is successful. One of the surest signs of Mr. Robinson's rank as a poet is the individuality of his rhythm; the "personality" of his style. He puts great stress (more than is commonly observed) on the sound of words, he uses a large number of feminine endings with a very special effect, his verse is never monotonous, and its melody with a peculiar, slightly remote, cadence of its own, is nearly...
Fourth, pretty much the whole of English history is also covered by courses devoted to certain periods. There is a rhythm, an ebb and flow, a rise and fall of certain elementary