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He mistook the responsive excitement produced by the ideas and visions of others for authentic inspiration, the vivacity of a sociable and conversational gift for the creative force of genius, and the immobility of obvious and established conventional judgments for an extraordinary soundness and incisiveness of fundamental analysis.
And then, too, you have perhaps observed or possibly," said the Vicar gleefully, "she has effaced that characteristic out of deference to your own great power of amiable toleration but she had a certain incisiveness of speech which had some power to wound? I will give you a small instance. Gibbs, the schoolmaster, is a very worthy man, but he has a certain flightiness of manner and disposition.
The way you get to the heart of the subject without worrying over detail. The incisiveness. I'm mentally applying your method to the problems of my own work.... To stand here and watch you sketching is pure selfishness on my part." "Like other men, you imagine that women can't get beyond detail." A flush had come into her voice.
Oh, hang it! It's too stiff!" "Not a bit of it!" said the Honourable John Ruffin with cold business incisiveness. "Pollyooly has the monopoly of the likeness of Marion, and she must be paid a monopoly price. Besides, this business has been costing you over a thousand a year; surely you can't kick at seven or eight pounds a week for six weeks, or so, to stop it for good and all.
"We're not going to cry at any rate!" snapped Mollie. "At least I'm not." There was an incisiveness a sharpness to her voice that made Grace look up a bit angrily. "I I'm not crying!" she said, and there was more energy in her voice than had been noticeable for some time. "Well, it's a very good imitation of it then," went on Mollie.
Such are to be my historian's principles. As for diction and style, he is not to set about his work armed to the teeth from the rhetorician's arsenal of impetuosity and incisiveness, rolling periods, close-packed arguments, and the rest; for him a serener mood.
Beppo, its brilliant prelude, sparkles like a draught of champagne. It aims at comparatively little, but is perfectly successful in its aim, and unsurpassed for the incisiveness of its side strokes, and the courtly ease of a manner that never degenerates into mannerism.
Personally," she sighed, "I'm hoping for the piebald pony." "Yes, but this party?" prodded the Lay Reader. "Oh, yes, the party " quickened Flame. "Why have it in a deserted house?" questioned the Lay Reader with some incisiveness. Even with her eyes closely bandaged Flame could see perfectly clearly that the Lay Reader was really quite troubled.
The loves of the peasant youth and the aristocratic girl, traversed and agitated by their overweening pride, and triumphing at last rather over themselves than over each other these things make up a gladiatorial combat of 'espagnolismes, which is displayed to the reader with a supreme incisiveness.
And the second of the series, a composition not without its incisiveness, as well as several of the tiny "Six Piano Pieces," Op. 19, recall at moments Brahms, at others Chopin, a Chopin of course cadaverous and turned slightly green.
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