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Since the Prudential building there have been other tall office buildings, by other hands, truthful in the main, less rigid, less monotonous, more superficially pleasing, yet they somehow fail to impart the feeling of utter sincerity and fresh originality inspired by this building.
Such qualities were obvious and important; but, in the impact of a personality, it is something deeper, something fundamental and common to all its qualities, that really tells. In Victoria, it is easy to discern the nature of this underlying element: it was a peculiar sincerity.
It is useless and unworthy for them to complain that the public will not stand sincerity, that they cannot get sincere plays acted, and so forth. If they have not the backbone to produce what they feel they ought to produce, without regard to what the public wants, then good-bye to progress of any kind.
The creed of a strong man, expressed with absolute sincerity, is always as interesting as it is rare; and the presumption is that it contains truths which would require to be incorporated in a wider system. At any rate it represents the man; and I have therefore tried to expound it as clearly as I could.
How else, indeed, can their sincerity be demonstrated?
'None whatever, I replied quickly, thus getting in my oar ahead of Hale. 'This is a loss to our country, pursued this admirable young man, with evident sincerity. I began to see I could make a good deal of so clever a fellow if he came under my tuition. 'The blunders of our police', he went on, 'are something deplorable.
"I admire your versatility, sir, and could be entertained with it at another time. At present sincerity is more in request." "Sincerity!" said the stranger; "a child's whistle, with but two notes in it yea, yea, and nay, nay.
Irene wished, with a sigh, that it might never end; unreal as it was, it was more native to her spirit than that future which her talk with Stanhope had opened to her contemplation. An ill-defined apprehension possessed her in spite of the reassuring presence of her lover and her perfect confidence in the sincerity of his passion; and this feeling was somehow increased by the appearance of Mrs.
'He should not have it if he offered the Moldwarp estate in exchange, I cried indignantly; and the thought flashed across me that this temptation was what my uncle had feared from the acquaintance of Mr Coningham. 'Your sincerity will not be put to so great a test as that, he returned, laughing quite merrily. 'But I am glad you have such a respect for real property.
Zurdoki found the countess in her chamber; she had been waiting for him, and was quite alone. The old inamorato at once fell down upon his knees before the lovely lady, and to convince her of the sincerity of his passion laid at her feet the promised gifts; a purse filled with gold, the collar of brilliants, and the will and testament, authenticated by the seal of a cathedral chapter.
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