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Updated: May 19, 2025
"But isn't the mission of Art to beautify to adorn ?" broke in Hermia, mercilessly bromidic. Markham turned and looked at her as though he had suddenly discovered the presence of an insect which needed extermination. "My dear young lady, the mission of Art is to tell the truth," he growled. "When I find it impossible to do that, I shall take up another trade."
It is the process of reasoning which concerns us, not its translation into conduct. A man may be a devoted supporter of Mrs. Grundy and yet be a Sulphite, if he has, in his own mind, reached an original conclusion that society needs her safeguards. He may be the wildest-eyed of Anarchists and yet bromidic, if he has accepted another's reasons and swallowed the propaganda whole.
A moment later she returned beaming. "I have borrowed a car for tomorrow, and I want you and Emelene to come with me for a little spin. We ought to have a bright day; the night is wonderful. Poor George," she sighed, "I wish he didn't have to be away so much." "His career is yours, you know," kittenishly bromidic, Emelene comforted her. The following day fulfilled the promise of its predecessor.
Frankly, neither did Fred Starratt, but he held his peace. He was thinking just where he would gather enough money together to pay Mrs. Finn's questionable substitute. The guests arrived shortly and there were the usual stiff, bromidic greetings. Mrs. Hilmer had been presented to Fred first ... a little, spotless, homey Scandinavian type, who radiated competent housekeeping and flawless cooking.
Each expresses the crystallized thought of her particular bromidic group. Done, then, by a person who is herself a Sulphite par excellence, the result is droll. "One has," says Emerson, "but to remove an object from its environment and instantly it becomes comic." The same thing is done less artistically every day upon the vaudeville stage.
Habits tend to persist, and if she has contracted the habit of much speaking, she thinks her volubility should be accounted a virtue and wonders that the children do not applaud the bromidic platitudes which have been uttered in the same form and in the same tones a hundred times.
The pastime, recently come into vogue, of collecting Bromidioms, is a pursuit by itself, worthy enough of practice if one appreciates the subtleties of the game and does not merely collate hackneyed phrases, irrespective of their true bromidic quality.
One has a grim, naïf, virile humor, the other a dead, even beauty. One is hot, the other cold. The Dark Ages were sulphitic there were wild deeds then; men exploded. The Renaissance was essentially bromidic; Art danced in fetters, men looked back at the Past for inspiration and chewed the cud of Greek thought. For the Sulphite, fancy; for the Bromide, imagination.
He fell into a reverie, scratching his legs after the nonos and letting his cigarette go out. I arose to depart. He must go to Huapu with the chief, who was again at the door, "And did the fête help the parish?" I asked with that bromidic zeal to please that so often discloses the fly just when the ointment's smell is sweetest. "Alas!" he replied, with a sorrowful shake of his beard.
Besides, I suppose lots of the people that go to Bohemian restaurants aren't really artists at all; they just go to see the artists; they're just as bromidic as can be Don't you hate bromides? Of course I want to see some of that part of life, but I think Oh, don't you think those artists and all are dreadfully careless about morals?" "Well " "Yes," she breathed, reflectively.
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