Word: threading
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Professor Kittredge dwelt first on the significance of the weird sisters and said, "It has often been observed that the word 'blood' runs through this tragedy like a scarlet thread. It is no less certain that fate and metaphysical powers are prominent in every line of the play. Thus the tragedy of Macbeth is unescapably fatalistic, although the author does not render the bloody deeds of his hero inexcusable...
...often at Boston symphony concerts, and deservedly; every hearing renews the impression that it is one of the most beautiful things in piano literature. Two years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch played it wonderfully; MM, Samaroff equalled his performance yesterday. The first movement as she gave it was fine as silk thread, warm, clear, lustrous; the remarkably fine execution of that very difficult syncopation in the last movement would alone have justified Mme, Samaroff's claim to the first rank of, musicianship. She is a superb artist, and played like...
...affairs, and subject to the prejudices of the times. But it is as showing a remarkable and possibly great personality at first hand that a volume of collected letters such as those of Franklin K. Lane has its chief interest and its chief reason for being. The one thread running through the whole and giving the volume body is the personality of the man who wrote the letters...
...murders we have had until the very edgings of the pages turned red. Naturally, the concerse of the proposition should be true. Mr. Hudson has been the first to make it so. Certain bright gardens cry for nothing at all. To be sure, "Abbe Pierre" has a binding thread the romance of David Ware, an American professor "from the department of Ohio", and Germaine Sance, a daughter of Gascony. Yet that is not "Abbe Pierre". For "Abbe Pierre" is nothing more nor less than Mr. Hudson, in priestly disguise, enjoying the gentle beauties of Gascony...
...example, Monsieur Brisson, the famous dramatic aritic, said: "Beranger' is neither comedy nor tragedy. It is poetry--grace. An indefinable charm runs through these scattered scenes, bound together by a single thread...