A sensational but vivid and picturesque story, with a plot so full of mysterious complications and development that it would excite the envy and admiration of any past master of melodrama.
Mrs. Leighton is the author of many sensational novels, but the latest production of her pen surpasses any of her previous works.
To those who revel in sensational fiction, marked by literary skill as well as audacity and fertility of invention, this story can be confidently commended.
The story is rich in sensationalincident and dramatic situations.
The play was not strong enough without sensational features.
The climax of the third act was the great sensationalfeature of the play.
It might be quite sensational and yet entirely simple; for it would largely consist of darkening the stage and making horrible noises behind the scenes.
I knew henceforward what was meant, or what might be meant, by a Scene in the House, or a Challenge from the Platform, or any of those sensational events which take place in the newspapers and nowhere else.
Everyone of the old Brotherhood, scattered over many cities and callings, has hailed the invitation, and is coming, with the exception of Bentley, who will send a sensational telegram from Paris.
The larger version of this is that England has really got into so wrong a state, with its plutocracy and neglected populace and materialistic and Servile morality, that it must take a sharp turn that will be a sensational turn.
Do not be frightened; or suppose that anything sensational or final has occurred.
Those who have read it know its sensational character.
This is the way in which sensational news is manufactured for the purpose of promoting an anti-landlord crusade and prejudicing the owners of property in the eyes of the country.
There have been many remarkable and sensationalcases of cure of disease by hypnotic suggestion, reported especially in France.
Here, for example, is perhaps the most sensational one.
The Camorrist trials over the Cuocolo murders at Viterbo, perhaps the most sensational in the world since the Dreyfus case, have shown its power to be more dangerous than any one could for a moment have imagined.
It was called "The Unknown One," so it was probably of the sensational type in which small boys usually revel.
They had named him after the hero of their Latin exercise-book, which overflowed with anecdotes about that versatile genius--anecdotes whose vagueness in detail was more than compensated by their sensational brilliance.
If we think of how hard the exclusionists have fought to reject the coming of ordinary-looking dust from this earth's externality, we can sympathize with them in this sensational instance, perhaps.
It may have been carelessness: intent may have been to say that a sensational story of a strange stone said to have fallen, etc.
The next datum is one of the most sensational we have, except that there is very little to it.
The story was never investigated, but other accounts that seem acceptably to be other observations upon this same sensational spectacle came in, as if of their own accord, and were published by Prof.
This was sensational enough--that the things should be thought worth shipping about the country with freights so high.
At this point the newcomer had glanced up to behold the first strange gentleman, and Billy held his breath, expecting to witness a sensational capture.
Who does not recall sensational acquittals in which sympathy for the defendant or prejudice against the plaintiff carried away the feelings of the twelve good men and true?
Any absurdity which a crank anywhere in the world brings forth is heralded with a joy in the sensational impossibilities which must devastate the mind of the naïve reader.
The most sensational specimen of the group was “The Lure.
This type of alarming news most often reaches the imagination of the newspaper reader nowadays, and this is the appeal of the most sensational plays.
Plenty of lewd literature in the circulars of the quacks and even in the sensationalnewspapers will reach their eye and their brain, and yet it will leave not the slightest trace.
She is followed by the most tempting invitations to live in metropolitan houses where sensational experiments can be performed with her.
I now come to a series of facts of a sensational character.
I should have liked Sherlock Holmes to have been in the case, because he would have saved me a great deal of sensational development, as well as much anxiety and observation.
Sir Alexander Cockburn had appointed himself to try it, on account of its sensational character; but as it came for trial at a time when the Lord Chief Justice could not attend, it fell to the junior Judge on the Bench.
The first and most sensational case that I was called upon to preside over was known as the Penge case.
In order to prevent unnecessary pain to the reader on a subject so distressing in its nature, the more sensational and horrifying cases of premature burial have been omitted.
In one of the most sensational raids ever made in this city, by the vice squad, under the auspices of the Purity League, what is believed to be a well-organized white-slave business was unearthed last night.
Still further and moresensational facts are expected to develop at the preliminary hearing, which will take place tomorrow morning.
They not only will resent your indifference, but they are extremely averse to anything like sensational drama in private life.
He spent a whole day there, smoking and lounging and reading a rubbishy sensational story, and declared that the Devonshire roses had taken many years off his age.
It was one of the old uncouth Christs hewn out of bare wood, having the long, wedge-shaped limbs and thin flat legs that are significant of the true spirit, the desire to convey a religious truth, not a sensational experience.
And inside is the most startling sensational Christus I have ever seen.
Beyond the Brenner, I have only seen vulgar or sensational crucifixes.
Nearly everyone present had read the sensational articles concerning his work in the feature sections of the big town newspapers.
His picture of rural life is more mellow than melodramatic; and his tale reaches a happy end, unchequered by anything more sensational than a mild outbreak of scandal from the local wag-tongues.
A Little World Apart, in short, is no very sensational discovery, but good enough as a quiet corner for repose.
At the inquest some sensational evidence seems likely to be given.
The thought had hardly flashed across her mind when a sensational episode in the play awakened the attention of the house.
One of the Mayor's secretaries came out, a tall young man who, as a reporter on a sensational newspaper, had acquired a habit of dodging curses and kicks.
She did not desire more sensational newspaper articles, and she realized that she must be more than careful if she was not to supply the material for them.
His story is of the sensational style--sensational in a clean and wholesome way--and proves the author has surmounted the first difficulties which usually attack the man who attempts to write a 'detective story.
No pity stirred his cruel heart as his eye ran over the few paragraphs that told him in a sensational manner of the cause of her death.
Ingenious in plot, exciting in incident, and sensational enough even for warm summer afternoons, the volume teems with interest.
The Blithedale Romance, published in the same year, though not strikingly inferior to the others, adhered more to conventional patterns in its plot and in the sensational nature of its ending.
In John Webster the fondness for the abnormal and sensational themes, which beset the Stuart stage, showed itself in the exaggeration of the terrible into the horrible.
Quietism was his literary religion, and the sensational was to him not merely vulgar, but almost wicked.
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