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'Temperamentally on tap; artistically beyond question; gastronomically unsatisfied. At this concise statement of his condition, Smyth took off his hat, gazed at it as if he had been previously unaware of its existence, and replaced it on the very back of his head.
It is a nice frock, isn't it?" she ended, artistically casual. And then there were questions to be asked, stories to be told, and an hour and a half passed like five minutes. No more was said about the length of her untimely visit to Italy, but much about the days in the near future. Would she go to see "Peter Pan" the next night?
Let me here summarize some of the ideas and principles in which "Leaves of Grass" has its root, and from which it starts. A collection of poems in the usual sense, a variety of themes artistically treated and appealing to our æsthetic perceptibilities alone, it is not. It has, strictly speaking, but one theme, personality, the personality of the poet himself.
The skilful application of wood ash and powdered charcoal to the hollows around the eyes, the pits beneath the cheekbones, gave him a gaunt, careworn appearance, suitable to an Earthman too brow-beaten to dream of defying his overlords. Wat, who had artistically applied the make-up, viewed his handiwork with admiration. "You'll do," he grinned.
Your courage was one of the things I most loved in you. Let's be brave together!" His smile was irresistibly happy. She could not bear that he should doubt her courage, and she wanted passionately not to take that smile from his face. She began to weaken. "Mary," he cried, fired by the instinct to make the courage of their mating artistically perfect. "I've told you about my pictures.
Now he would not need a reason, and he grinned while he plastered his hair down in a sleek, artistically perfect scallop over his right eyebrow. Tom was going to the home ranch, to round up Al, very likely. He would be gone all night and he would not know how many of his men rode abroad that night.
If therefore the literary historian, while fully acknowledging the very respectable talents of the Roman comedians, cannot recognize in their mere stock of translations a product either artistically important or artistically pure, the judgment of history respecting its moral aspects must necessarily be far more severe.
The spectre and the Prince pass successively through the same series of rooms; but it takes the former fifty-one words to cover the distance, whereas it takes the latter only six. In every story that is artistically fashioned, the methods of emphasis enumerated in this chapter will be found to be continually applied.
He gave his sitters an equal importance in position and lighting, and at the same time painted a picture artistically satisfying. Not one of the six men could have had any fault to find with the way in which he was portrayed. Each looks equally prominent in vivid life. Yet they are not a row of six individual men, but an organic group held together you hardly know how.
Then came to her sharp as any knife, the thought of what there might be. "There's nothing wrong with anyone? There hasn't been an accident or anything?" The other, still speechless, conveyed "No." "Don't," said Betty again. And slowly and very artistically the flood was abated. Lady St. Craye was almost calm, though still her breath caught now and then in little broken sighs.
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