Word: shallowing
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...researches of Professor Guildi necessarily resembled those of a detective as much as an archaeologist. Three months ago a tourist picked up in Cyrene a fragment of an old bust and brought it to Rome; Guidi set out with his assistants, and for three months sifted the shallow loam of the old coast town for other fragments. Piece was laid to piece; the statue grew like a head emerging from the casual, apparently unrelated strokes of an artist's crayon, until at last it stood complete and the wide marble eyes, the straight nose descending under the helmet...
...Mother's Cares," "Breakfast in Bed," "Children Playing with a Cat," are titles that more befit memorial calendars than good paintings. Critics have hinted that Miss Cassatt might have painted better if she had been married; maternity would then have had less fascination for her. This is a shallow suggestion; if she had borne children she might not have made paintings. She projected her instinct in oil and, since she possessed a first class intellect, and submitted herself to rigid discipline, she learned how to paint superbly...
...never fear. Castigator Lewis is too full of important messages for mankind to let even this slender opportunity escape him. Joe's little Alverna is soon revealed in her true cosmetics?an incorrigible, shallow flirt, bored stiff by Joe's backwoodsmanhood. She tempts Prescott until he has to run away to save his honor; then she overtakes him and completes the seduction. The runaways are pursued through the wilderness by a forest fire and Joe Easter, the fire hanging back just far enough to make an impressive setting for some sterling heroics by Joe when he catches...
...shown translating itself into that sweet and sticky opus, The Sorrows of the Young Werther. Other chapters demonstrate the dull phenomenon of Mrs. Siddons, a British beauty with the spirit of a bourgeois curate, rising to histrionic heights on emotional wings supplied by the death of her asthmatic daughter-shallow and caddish Painter Thomas Lawrence being lugged in to emphasize the inferiority of the Siddons-Kemble strain. The one study that comes off concerns a brilliant young French historian who mastered life, and then frittered it away, by emulating a character in Balzac-a rebuffed suitor who paused...
...seeks to root out the arbitrary, the illogical, the instinctive. It realizes that "the great source of friction is human wilfulness, and the great cause of waste is insecurity," but it believes that, within the limits of intellection, law can become an exact science, not in the shallow sense of fashioning statutes to govern all conceivable occasions, but in the deeper sense of boiling down legal history to its philosophical essences and distributing these, in the form of simplified, uniform statutes, through society's legislative agencies; in the case of the U. S., through the state legislatures. This...