Favorite characterizations.

His comic characterization is equally true, various, and profound, with his serious.

Frank concludes his dissertation with his opinion of England and quotes Thucydides, V., 105, as the best applicable characterization of the British with which he is acquainted.

In passing to a brief characterization of a few of the subordinate officers, I must not omit to mention the fact that the gastald had also certain military functions attached to his office.

Ellen listened and laughed as heartily as any member of the circle at her repartee, her brilliant characterization, her off-hand description.

This is a white man's country, and a white man's city, and no nigger has any business here when a white man wants him gone!" Carteret frowned darkly at this brutal characterization of their motives.

He found her tremendously entertaining, endowed as she was with an excellent and well-stored memory, a gift of caustic characterization and a pretty taste in the scandal of her bygone day and generation, as well as with a mind still active and better informed on the affairs of to-day than that of many a Parisienne of the haute monde and half her age.

Both faults are unfortunately rather typical, one of the extravagant colouring affected by the dramatists, the other of the coarse and hasty characterization to which Fletcher in particular is apt to condescend.

Locke's humor, his deft characterization, his toleration of human failings, largely compensate for his lack of significant plots.

This is the very perfection of dramatic characterization: for we can never estimate a man's true worth if we consider him altogether abstractedly by himself; we must see him in his relations with others; and it is here that most dramatic poets are deficient.

From anything like the grotesqueness of exaggerated characterization Grillparzer was saved by his sense of form.

The humorous characterization is joyously exaggerated into caricature,the serious characterization into romantic unreality, Richard Swiveller and Little Nell refuse to combine.

As indicating her literary judgment, and her capacity for incisive characterization and clear, trenchant criticism, reference may be made to the essay on Heine, which is one of the finest pieces of critical writing the century has produced.

One may like a universe that lends itself to lofty and exalted characterization.

exclaimed Grace, whose tall and slender figure, and face of peculiar, winsome beauty had gained her the not overdrawn characterization of "Gibson girl."

" This is entirely correct, as a poetic characterization.

Thus he delivered a magnificent review of the nations, with his poetical characterizations and most resounding epithets.

Thus Cowley's play has the characteristic faults of immature work, absence of rational characterization, and want of logical construction.

On the other hand, there is much realistic characterization and a Shakespearian variety and freedom of tone.

There is splendid characterization, too, in the Song of Roland, together with a fine sense of poetic form; not fine enough, however, to avoid a prodigious deal of conventional gag.

We must not, it is true, look for perfect balance of construction, for adequacy of dramatic climax, or for subtle characterization; but what has been achieved was, in the stage of development at which the drama had then arrived, no mean achievement.

And she gave a performance which for most of the persons who saw it, made her the, and the only, "Nedda"; thoughor perhaps, becauseshe didn't give the part quite its traditional characterization; adapted it with the unscrupulousness of the artist to her own purpose.

One is reminded of Mrs. Hawthorne's vivid characterization of the two men as she saw them on the ice of the Musketaquid twenty years before.

Certainly they are poles away from an accurate characterization of our own varient of this social pattern.

Sydney Smith's witty characterization of him is worth recalling: "I always prophesied his greatness from the first moment I saw him, then a very young and unknown man on the Northern Circuit.