Word: wrought
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...case, until the movie comes along with stars to flesh out the rather meagre characters, this is a well-wrought thriller with more thought and flair than you're likely to find anywhere this side of Serious Literature. And besides, it's one book that certainly won't spoil the movie...
...tiny portrait of the duke in the Limbourgs' lesser-known Belles Heures epitomizes their manner: the stiff figure, kneeling devoutly before a sumptuous Gothic ground of red and gold brocade, the flat silhouettes, the sharp, unatmospheric color and light. The painting is conceived as a precious object, wrought with infinite care. So, too, with the work of the Rohan Master, or an anonymous miniaturist's image of Christ enthroned, surrounded by the four evangelists: one imagines the duke hypnotizing himself with the convoluted tendrils of gold leaf that fill the page...
...display her gift for developing a character. In her first scene, Sills is a sweet-voiced lark of a girl enjoying the open sky and the fragrant fields. Moments later she is off on a rapturous, throaty love duet with the Earl of Leicester, making Donizetti's elaborately wrought roulades and cantilenas sound as natural as a lullaby...
...massive air strikes justified as directed against reported enemy massings for attack? Who knows how many million of dollars worth of bombs were used, or wasted--since to our knowledge nobody has claimed that the strikes prevented the attack--in that adventure, or the extent of non-military destruction wrought...
About this time there lived Jesus, a wise man, if indeed one ought to call him a man. For he was one who wrought surprising feats and was a teacher of such people as accept the truth gladly . . . He was the Messiah. When Pilate, upon hearing him accused by men of the highest standing among us, had condemned him to be crucified, those who had . . . come to love [him] did not cease. On the third day he appeared to them restored to life. For the prophets of God had prophesied these and myriads of other marvelous [things] about...