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The alienation of modern life--a central theme in the work of Léger's literary friends Henry Miller and Blaise Cendrars--doesn't enter the painter's resolutely optimistic vision.
The two camps are battling over the soul of the Democratic Party: Should it become more conservative, or stand resolutely on the left?
The major surprise of Degas' photographs is that the theatricality and staginess so resolutely banished from his paintings flooded into his photographs.
This Masterpiece Theatre-funded docudrama about Queen Victoria's unusually close "friendship" with her Scottish manservant is said to reflect both the virtues and flaws of the PBS TV series: strong performances from actors little known in the United States (Antony Sher, Judi Dench, and Billy Connolly), but also a cloying pretentiousness and "decorousness" (Janet Maslin, New York Times ). The movie "often feels pat and resolutely performed for the camera, scene by scene," says the Wall Street Journal 's Joe Morgenstern.
After anesthesia was introduced in the U.S. in 1844, the phrase came flguratively to mean to `deal with a bad situation resolutely,' as in Rudyard Kipling's lines “Bite the bullet, old man,/ And don't let them think you're afraid.”
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