Viewed from the very strict standpoint that all Base Ball games should be played without mistake or blunder this world's series may be said to have been inartistic, but it is only the hypercritical theorist who would take such a cold-blooded view of the series.

On the one hand Wackernagel, who believes that the function of poetry is to convey ideas in concrete and sensuous images and the function of prose to inform the intellect, asserts that prose drama and didactic poetry are inartistic.

It is not surprising that, their author being so inartistic with regard to their object, his verses themselves should be harsh and unmusical beyond the worst that one would imagine fit to be called verse.

Of course, as I said, nothing definite has passed between us, but" She giggled and simpered significantly; and Ida, trying to force herself to take some interest, fastened the collar for Isabel, and gently and with much tact persuaded that inartistic young lady to discard a huge crimson bow which she had stuck on her dress with disastrous results.

I shan't take any callsafter dying, it's too inartistic, isn't it?

Tiring of the inartistic prospect she sauntered out and downstairs to see what her maid might be about.

The lovely girlish face, of a spiritual type rare in Venice, seemed to the young patrician more beautiful than that of any of the noble, smiling ladies who were waiting to be won by him, and in those hours of blissful service he, too, made a studycrude and inartistic.

Those who want fuller information should read Parton's long biography, in which almost every subject under the sun is alluded to, and yet which, in spite of its inartistic and unclassical execution, is the best thesaurus I know of for Jacksonian materials.

Upon a steep hill, five kilometres from the town, stands the Baron's residence, a long, rather inartistic white building, which, however, is very luxuriously furnished.

Gabrielle Heyburn! CHAPTER XXX REVEALS SOMETHING TO HAMILTON Edgar Hamilton sat with his eyes fixed upon the dingy, inartistic, smoke-begrimed windows of the chambers opposite.

This is, however, essentially an inartistic practice, and one cannot regret that it has gone out of fashion.

The execution of Ben Hur is crude and commonplace, but the conception is by no means inartistic.

[Footnote 3: The duel, even in countries whose customs permit of it, is essentially an inartistic end; for it leaves the catastrophe to be decided either by Chance or Providencetwo equally inadmissible arbiters in modern drama.

"'You know,' he said, 'I must send something so very good to begin with, that they can't help seeing at first sight how good it is.' "'But not so good that you can't ever make another equal to it,' suggested I out of my practical but inartistic brain.

To slur over the faults and failings of the great is not only inartistic: it is also faint-hearted and unjust.

It is made of silver thickly gilt, and decorated with a number of costly jewels; there is a peacock in the middle entirely formed of precious stones; but all these treasures fail to produce any very great effect, from the clumsy and inartistic fashion in which they are set.

The huge, inartistic, but imposing block of masonry that appears from a little distance to be clinging, after the manner of a swallow's nest, to the precipitous face of the rock, and which is reached from below by more than 200 steps in venerable dilapidation[*], contains the church of St. Sauveur, the chapel of the Virgin, called the Miraculous Chapel, and the chapel of St. Amadour, all distinct.

This leads us to speak of the Plot; and we are constrained to say that a more inartistic, unfinished piece of work we cannot remember.

But when she is handling her curates, it is a savage and utterly inartistic humour that inspires her.

And a very commonplace, foxy and inartistic lawyer he was, too, with his fondness for money bags and his willingness to oblige the town with anything it wanted.

The workers in silver, copper, and brass are many, but their productions are usually rough and inartistic.

That is to say, laws forbidding the use of land for the erection of hideous signs, or forbidding the height of buildings at an inartistic excess have been declared not to fall within the police power, but under eminent domain.

"Faust" was abused a good deal as a pantomime, a distorted caricature of Goethe, and a thoroughly inartistic production.

Bohun would have denied it vehemently if you told him that he had once looked down on Lawrence, or despised him for his inartistic mind.

Expediency is his faith, pliancy his creed; lying is inartistic, also dangerous.