The legitimate object of comedy is the truthful delineation of manners.
I have been over the route traversed by Captain Glazier and party, and find that the map which he has published is a correct delineation of that section.
His performance is spoken of in terms of high commendation, but there is no record of his treatment of the character, his delineation probably differing materially from that of modern actors.
In intellectual expression and delineation of the operations of the mind, he is superior to all his countrymen, but inferior to the first Italian painters.
In his delineation of the Norwegian peasant character, Björnson was greatly aided by the study of the sagas, which he had read with enthusiasm from his earliest boyhood.
Iphigenia among the Tauri, which metre and diction mark as one of the later plays, is also one of the best--excellent both in the management of a romantic plot and in the delineation of character.
Doubtless there was no generation after the stone age in which men did not resort, more or less, to the graphic delineation of ideas.
This is particularly true of the representation of native animals, yet foreign ones were treated with great skill, although the delineation of these betrays less practice.
The angular mode of treatment, so conspicuous in Egyptian monuments, even in the delineation of every object, is not perceivable in those of Assyria.
In thedelineation of hunting scenes, however, he falls far behind John Leech, and this inferiority is strikingly manifested in the illustration to which we are now referring.
The strange part of it is that this peculiarity is shown almost exclusively in the delineation of heroes of fiction.
For the accuracy of my delineation I have high authority.
He gradually obtained a rare mastery in the delineation of his unlovely mise en scène.
The delineation of the upper middle class culture by which this exquisite flower of maidenhood is first caressed and transplanted, then slighted and left to wither, is not so satisfactory.
I well remember being alternately amused and disgusted by a French theatrical delineation of an English war correspondent, given in a spectacular military piece which I witnessed a short time after my first arrival in Paris.
He has included in his "Glances Back" some account of the facilities which enabled him to secure adequate pictorialdelineation of the Court life of the Empire.
Each Gospel presents us with a delineation of Peter.
The strongest evidence which the Gospels afford of their being historical narratives is the unquestionable fact that they contain a delineation of the greatest of all characters, Jesus Christ our Lord.
This character, though a subordinate one, is also a perfect delineation of its kind, instinct with historic life.
It follows, therefore, on the supposition that the delineation given us in the Gospels is that of an historical reality, that his assertions respecting himself would stand in a wholly different position from those of any other man.
But the existence of this delineationin each of the Gospels involves those with whom I am reasoning in a yet further difficulty.
How has it come to pass that the authors of our Gospels, if they each composed their narratives from a mass of fictions which grew up during a period of seventy years, have each given us a delineation of the same Jesus?
It is not my purpose on the present occasion to discuss the general question, whether the delineation of Jesus Christ which the Gospels contain is one of an ideal or an historical person.
For the purpose of the argument I must assume that this character is a fictitious one, because to assume that it is a delineation of an actual historical character, would be to take for granted the entire question at issue.
Is the character of Jesus Christ as depicted in them the delineation of an ideal conception or of an historical reality?
The New Testament contains a fifth delineation of the character of Simon Peter, professedly drawn by himself.
If they are historical, the account of the origin of this second character of which they present us so perfect a delineation is a very simple one.
Not a biography of Chiang K'ai-shek, it is instead a delineation of the institutions, the parties and movements, and the armies which today determine the Chinese destiny.
Attempt at a mew delineation of the Rivers of the Pampas from his Journal.
Attempt at a new delineation of the Rivers of the Pampas from his Journal.
Mr. Arrowsmith has adopted his delineation of the course of that river, as laid down from the diary of Cornejo, who descended it in 1790.
Again, the correct delineation of the projection of a regular geometrical figure, as a cube, suffices to give the eye a sense of relief.
The best delineation of Pike's route in South Park and about the headwaters of the Arkansaw is that traced on Josiah Gregg's map of the Indian Territory, etc.
I have here gone by his New Spain map, which may be presumed to be his best delineation of Rio Grande country, and which certainly fits in best with the text which we here follow.
I am aware, however, that there was nothing in it to touch the heart like the abasement of Lady Mason when confessing her guilt to her old lover, or any approach in delicacy of delineation to the character of Mr. Crawley.
La Fille Elise and Nana the public could endure; but the cold-blooded delineation of vice in this first novel was too much for the Parisian, who likes a display of sentiment or sympathy in the treatment of unsavoury themes.
Barrès later reviles the friends of Boulanger who deserted him, by his delineation of the Panama scandal.
Homais stands alone, a subject the delineation of which Swift would have envied.
But is it a genuine delineation of the man himself, of his motives, of the working of his mind in speech and action?
The account given by Collins, is a valuable delineation of society when set free from moral influence, and proves how little simple coercion can check a general disposition to crime.
In the "Day of Judgment," a poem of about 120 stanzas, we are given in sublime verses a vivid delineation of the crack of doom as the archangel sounds the last trumpet.
Nowhere can we find a trace either of description or delineation of animals physically capable of carrying on their backs the armed men of the period.
Salem Chapel," a skilful delineation of a minister and his congregation, has been compared to George Eliot's "Silas Marner.
I take three of them, as quite trustworthy pictures, and the best our present arts of delineation could produce, of the three Etats, or representative orders, of the British nation of our day.
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