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This is evidenced by the accepted bromidic belief that each of the ordinary acts of life is, and necessarily must be, accompanied by its own especial remark or opinion. It is an association of ideas intensified in each generation by the continual correlation of certain groups of brain cells.
We accept their mania and cease to regard it; it, in a word, becomes bromidic. So, in their ways, are all cranks and eccentrics, all whose set purpose is to astonish or to shock. We end by being bored at their attitudes and poses. The Sulphite has the true Gothic spirit; the Bromide, the impulse of the classic.
The adjective is used more in pity than in anger or disgust. The Bromide can't possibly help being bromidic though, on the other hand, he wouldn't if he could. The chief characteristic, then, seems to be a certain reflex psychological action of the bromidic brain.
When you see one enter a room, you must reconcile yourself to the inevitable. No hope for flashes of original thought, no illuminating, newer point of view, no sulphitic flashes of fancy the steady glow of bromidic conversation and action is all one can hope for. He may be wise and good, he may be loved and respected but he lives inland; he puts not forth to sea.
From its beginning till 1815, Sulphitism was upon the increase, while from that year till 1870 there was a sickening drop to the veriest depths of bromidic thought. Then the Bromide infested the earth.
"If you saw that sunset painted in a picture, you'd never believe it would be possible!" It must be borne distinctly in mind that it is not merely because this remark is trite that it is bromidic; it is because that, with the Bromide, the remark is inevitable. One expects it from him, and one is never disappointed.
"I'll remember," promised Amarilly meekly, as she wiped her dewy eyes. "Now tell me directly, what is the matter." "It'll be such a humbly picture with my hair that way. I'd ought to look my best. I'd rather you'd paint me waiting on your table." "But a waitress is such a trite subject. It would be what your friend, I mean, our friend, Miss King, calls bromidic.
This is one of the few exceptions to the rule that a sulphitic thing can become bromidic. Time alone can accomplish this effect. Literature itself is either bromidic or sulphitic. The dime novel and melodrama, with hackneyed situations, once provocative, are so easily nitro-bromidic that they become sulphitic in burlesque and parody.
"There comes a day in every woman's life, of course," Miss Sarah ignored sweetly the interruption, "when she has to leave girlhood behind. And lest that sound bromidic and trite, I will add that I do not mean the trivial material things of immaturity, but rather the happy irresponsibility which has no place in a woman's life." That statement offered a plain enough opening.
"I have in mind," he said musingly, "a picture of a musician, the light to be streaming through a stained window on his uplifted head as he sits at an organ." "The Lost Chord?" inquired the tenor. "Nothing quite so bromidic as that," laughed the artist.
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