For Part II, the Passion, the mood turned darker, with more sound from the bass instruments and the organ and more word-painting from the chorus the weight on "iniquity" in "Surely he hath borne our griefs"; a knife-like slash on "deliver" in "He trusted in God". ❋ Heidi Waleson (2011)
His slow, deliberate drawl, the anxious and perturbed expression of his visage, the apparently painful effort with which he framed his sentences, and above all, the surprise that spread over his face when the audience roared with delight or rapturously applauded the finer passages of his word-painting, were unlike anything of the kind they had ever known. ❋ JR. ROY MORRIS (2010)
The exquisite artistry of the word-painting – Davies sweet-toned, yet often darkly distinctive of timbre – made it unforgettable. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Like the motets, too, the chansons contain little word-painting, but Gombert left two notable examples of the programme chanson after the manner of Janequin. ❋ Lu (2009)
If you do this, you run the risk of boring your readers at best, and destroying your word-painting as surely as an error would have. ❋ Carpe_libris (2007)
The absence of any attempt at word-painting, even of admiration at the glorious things which they saw, is most remarkable in all early voyagers, both ❋ Unknown (2007)
Welch's word-painting resembles watercolors done with broad brushstrokes -- there are a few key details, but the work derives its overall color from a limited palette, and distant impressions, rather than clear portraits, seem to characterize this novel for me. ❋ Michael Evans (2004)
Then there were pomegranate trees, golden-leaved, and tall poplars pollarded plume fashion as in southern France; and in a field a herd of brown pigs feeding, which commended itself to observance, doubtless, as color in some possible word-painting. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Singapore in seas which, as every one who has sailed much in them can testify, are not so smooth and tempest-free as word-painting travellers love to represent them. ❋ Unknown (2004)
As Hoskins makes clear, these resonances extend well beyond the limits of standard word-painting to embrace deeply embedded cultural presuppositions about racial Othering, gender, and archetypes of the hortus conclusus or earthly paradise as expressed in English stage representations of the slave, planter society, and West Indies scenery. ❋ Unknown (2002)
It is a marvelous bit of word-painting — his description of that majestic vision: ❋ Unknown (2003)
In the Eighties, Kael's disquisitions on the psychology of the American movie audience, which characterized her early criticism, gave way to page after page of word-painting. ❋ Menand, Louis (1995)
On the one hand, there was an intense fascination with natural forms and minute details evident in Victorian word-painting in prose and the naturalism of its art; on the other hand, there was ❋ WILLIAM A. MADDEN (1968)
Now, as it seems to be my turn at word-painting, I am going to tell you of an affair that occurred in ❋ Robert Fitzgerald (N/A)
When I read that short and simple cablegram, the thought came to my mind that if only the greater number of modern rioters in language were compelled to hoard their words out of sheer necessity for the cable, we should have better results from the attempts at word-painting that now cumber the ground. ❋ G. W. Steevens (N/A)
Regretting that the will to depict those life-pictures has not been better seconded by more skill in word-painting, the author lays down his pen, hoping that the pencil of the artist will atone, in some degree, for his own "many short-comings." ❋ Charles W. Hall (N/A)
These appreciators talked of the "word-painting" of Mrs. Browning. ❋ Various (N/A)
