| 单词 | inartistic |
| 例句 | Possibly some might call it a feminist novel, for the two heroines are stronger, cleverer and better balanced than their husbands and brothers — but we are sure Miss Cather had nothing so inartistic in mind. Review: ‘O Pioneers!’ by Willa Cather 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z Criticize the music’s simplistic emotions, earworm hooks, instant clichés, and crowd-pleasing exhortations as much as you’d like, the movie suggests, but don’t misunderstand it as insincere or inartistic, as selling out or pandering. In “Bohemian Rhapsody,” Freddie Mercury Is More Interesting Than His Music 2018-11-05T05:00:00Z But D.C. survived the officiating miscue to escape with an inartistic but satisfying 1-0 victory before the announced sellout crowd of 25,218 at rainy Providence Park in Portland, Ore. D.C. United overcomes crucial missed call, closes in on MLS playoff berth 2019-09-15T04:00:00Z “There is no method in his madness; and we must needs pronounce the chief feature of the volume a perfect failure, and the work itself inartistic.” Herman Melville at Home 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z His swing was an inartistic whir of elbows, shoulders and knees that resulted in a hook. The Masters champion who couldn't read or write - Golf Digest 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Through some of the most inartistic basketball this side of the Philadelphia 76ers. Heat Stay Alive, and Tie the Series, Against the Raptors 2016-05-14T04:00:00Z It is always liable to get out of order, and from the very nature of its construction must be an inartistic object. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z A workman, for example, will make some exquisite work of art, and yet he will finish off some part that is not obvious to the eye in the most slovenly and inartistic manner. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z By an odd paradox, these were they whose costumes were the most aggressively inartistic of any. The Tree of Knowledge A Novel 2012-04-05T02:00:35.603Z "Griffith Gaunt," however, I regard as a falling off, because it is a sour, unpleasant, and therefore inartistic book. Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches 2012-04-01T02:00:10.050Z These paintings are in distemper and were the humble inartistic precursors of noble frescoes in the continental fanes, but which had in England no development. The Grotesque in Church Art 2012-03-27T02:00:18.973Z In nearly all these remarks I agree with Mr. Eastlake, and especially in his remark that, owing to the very nature of its construction, a modern dining-table must be an inartistic object. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z His narrative of events extends from B.C. 722-480, but the whole thing has been done in the most inartistic fashion. Sidelights on Chinese Life 2012-04-21T02:00:23.993Z I do not mean to criticise the little country shrines whose inartistic decoration is often most heart-moving; in a remote village certain things are touching which elsewhere are displeasing. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z The flag of Brazil, which is very inartistic in its construction, bears among other devices the armillary sphere of Portugal. Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. 2012-03-23T02:00:32.397Z Consoled, because your mental and emotional climate is not as inartistic as it is painted, you return to Florian-Parmentier and his divagations. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z Hair cloth, although very durable, is altogether inartistic in its effect. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z The plain paper envelopes—gummed up at the ends, and difficult to get open again—are very inartistic, and anything but suitable to envelop such pretty little pictures as cartes-de-visite. The Evolution of Photography With a Chronological Record of Discoveries, Inventions, etc., Contributions to Photographic Literature, and Personal Reminescences Extending over Forty Years 2012-02-15T03:00:30.577Z The first attempt was a failure, an egregiously contemptible and inartistic failure, and all due to that inveterate bungler. The Maid of Honour (Vol. 3 of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France 2012-02-14T03:00:29.027Z That the English are an "inartistic" people, without true appreciation of pictures, music, the drama, is a statement commonly made and commonly accepted without any very serious examination of the evidence for and against. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z Not altogether inartistic is the row of substantially built houses where Mrs. Alexander Hector has been for some years located. Notable Women Authors of the Day Biographical Sketches 2012-01-19T03:00:21.017Z C. Lucilius invented satire, by first imparting a definite purpose to an inartistic kind of metrical composition, in which miscellaneous topics had been treated in accordance with the occasional mood or interests of the writer. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z One may safely say that but for the good inartistic British middle class, the fine arts would have to put up their shutters. Woman and Artist 2012-01-10T03:00:14.960Z This avenue, leading to the palace, affords compensation for all the inartistic streets outside the walls. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Yet genius takes its revenge on a dull world, especially if it is prosperous genius, too well established to be starved out by the stupidity of an inartistic people. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Helen Hamilton laughed aloud, and the professional half smiled in sympathy with her triumph, half frowned in disapproval of this most inartistic shot. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z The long-continued popularity of Roman tragedy implies also that it was something more than an inartistic copy of the masterpieces of Athenian genius. The Roman Poets of the Republic 2012-01-15T03:00:14.187Z No one could count the fine and ample sentiments which perish, smothered in the mire of inartistic writing. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z Consider the simplest and commonest example, the inartistic or half artistic natures whom a monumental history provides with sword and buckler. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Line by line he and Traubel, egotists both, but honest, thoughtful, artfully inartistic, have drawn a portrait, the like of which is not to be found. The Critical Game 2012-01-05T03:00:38.527Z Good Heavens, man, you might accuse us of plenty of other things, but not of being inartistic. The Money Gods 2012-01-04T03:00:39.617Z The thing is unexplained, inartistic, inorganic, but quite consistent with the drifting nature of Inglesant. Letters of Lord Acton To Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone 2011-12-06T03:00:20.687Z The furnishing of the house was Victorian; and he feared she might consider it a little heavy and inartistic. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z Such history would be quite against the analytical and inartistic tendencies of our time, and even be considered false. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Here it may not be amiss for me to recur to the form of my diary, whose inartistic jottings will best give the order of my days and movements. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z It is an attitude which I find swaggering in Fielding, insincere in Sterne, mocking in Heine, and inartistic in Thackeray; but Du Maurier made it lovable. English Society 2011-11-25T03:00:15.587Z Mrs. Reade sighed to herself, not meaning to be disrespectful, but grudging to see delicate work marred by inartistic hands. A Mere Chance, Vol. 2 of 3 A Novel 2011-11-24T03:00:45.597Z Miss Garden said, If I remember correctly, that the very words "whiskey and soda" were inartistic and spoiled the poetry and picturesqueness of the act. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z I am bound to say that though Mr. Macdougall firmly declined being party to this arrangement, which he said would be inartistic, he did so with the utmost courtesy. Mr. Punch in the Highlands 2011-11-01T02:00:23.677Z Hartmann is not treating this character inartistically, as a mere instrument for religious culture. Studies in Medi?val Life and Literature 2011-10-29T02:00:13.050Z Hence the noblest forms of moral perfection are rejected as inartistic by weaker artists, because the sight of these fruits is too painful for their ambition. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Presumably this was a transcript of petty thievery inartistically audited. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z Personally, I do not see that it was the words that were inartistic, but, rather, the introduction of whiskey and soda at all into a grand opera. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Two reviews, illustrated, to show, by actual examples from British gardens, that clipping and aligning trees to make them 'harmonise' with architecture is barbarous, needless, and inartistic by W. Robinson, F.L.S. Garden Design and Architects' Gardens 2011-10-05T02:00:19.627Z After a silence the young novelist, who had been poking the goldfish, said slowly: "That's pretty poor fiction, Athalie, but, as a matter of simple fact and inartistic truth, recording sentimental celerity, it stands unequalled." Quick Action 2011-09-26T02:00:28.347Z This is the very point that is so amusing in artists' writing, that the artist involuntarily acts as his vocation demands: he parodies the scientific and inartistic natures. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z It was an inartistic start; the big man was not touched; but neither did he touch Jack, who displayed, at all events, a quick pair of legs. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z I heard that our patriotic and inartistic Daughter of the Regiment caused several lads to enlist. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z I only tell you how to sing, what tone is good, what faults are to be avoided, what is artistic, what inartistic. Garcia the Centenarian And His Times Being a Memoir of Manuel Garcia's Life and Labours for the Advancement of Music and Science 2011-09-05T02:00:19.693Z A writer of novels of fashion, inartistic in form, but full of humor. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z Now he has got into the motion picture business I can’t quite abandon him; but I must say the National is crude and inartistic compared with your place here.” The Motion Picture Chums at Seaside Park The Rival Photo Theatres of the Boardwalk 2011-08-05T02:00:44.900Z It also shows that the purpose for which one sings is an important factor—random vociferations or a display of vocal gymnastics even of the most cultured kind is both inartistic and unmusical. Increasing Personal Efficiency 2011-07-31T02:00:10.480Z They only make a combination that is bizarre and inartistic. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z It disclosed itself instantly as incongruous, as out of keeping with the elevation of the legend—in a word, as inartistic. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z They are lively, inartistic tales, full of broad fun and drollery. A Brief Handbook of English Authors 2011-08-15T02:00:26.603Z The modern temper is something even worse than inartistic; it is brutally and aggressively hostile to beauty, whether natural or architectural. Critical Studies 2011-07-21T02:00:20.463Z They never split my head with din, Nor snuffle through their noses, Nor admiration seek to win By inartistic poses. In the Track of the Bookworm 2011-07-19T02:00:23.543Z Miss Garden—admirable and spontaneous artist though she be—once wrote an article in which she cited Madame Butterfly as an example of the inartistic effects of English librettos. Memoirs of an American Prima Donna 2011-11-17T03:00:32.600Z Not quite so inartistic as this, and yet frankly freakish was the arrangement of the closet scene between Hamlet and his mother, when Sarah-Bernhardt made her misguided effort to impersonate the Prince of Denmark. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z The peculiar beauty and brilliancy of these effects, when artistically rendered, impart to the prints an alluring charm, which appeals to the inartistic as well as the accredited artistic eye. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z What distinguished the more popular audience, and the more popular section in it, was a higher degree of this indifference and this liking, and in addition a special fondness for certain sources of inartistic joy. Oxford Lectures on Poetry 2011-07-19T02:00:15.897Z Now this introduction of the word Θεός into the text, however inartistic it may seem to you and to me, is a fatal circumstance to those who would contend on your side. The Revision Revised 2011-07-15T02:00:18.897Z Her scholarship degenerated into pedantry, and what had been stately and dignified accuracy in her terms grew to be harsh and inartistic technicality. Women Novelists of Queen Victoria's Reign A Book of Appreciations 2011-07-08T02:00:23.177Z These were, most of them, consciously and deliberately inartistic, appealing directly to the baser instincts and to the lower curiosities of man. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z It is a distinctly progressive process which possesses immense advantages and represents an effective and by no means inartistic aspect of the graphic arts. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z "It would have been inartistic to have shown him precipitated forwards; besides, the spirit of Jean might not have liked it." A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z But all this activity and effort in the interest of art, inartistic as its results sometimes might be, interested me, and gave me the sensation of being in my element. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z It was the ordinary parlor of its day, inartistic and comfortably ugly, but withal suitable and pleasant to the generation, who found in it their ideal of "home." Playing With Fire 2011-06-29T02:00:30.590Z Now, nothing could well be conceived more incongruously inartistic than a white man blacked up into the semblance of a negro, and then impertinently caroling an impudent Irish lyric. A Book About the Theater 2011-07-21T02:00:23.843Z Through the medium of the pictorial press it has diffused a knowledge of the noblest principles of art, and has ever exerted a refining influence even over inartistic minds. Engraving for Illustration Historical and Practical Notes 2011-07-19T02:00:23.283Z The play of her strong, full arm was good to watch; the inartistic veldschoen could not hide the symmetry of her feet. By Veldt and Kopje 2011-06-15T02:00:20.067Z It follows the fortunes of a regiment through the Peninsula; but while the plan gives it a good groundwork of reality and an abundance of stirring scenes, it is inartistic. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z The eyes had a strange look, half reckless, half defiant, but, even in a faded and inartistic photograph, of a subtle fascination. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z Careless and inartistic minds always find the accidental first; the accidental is to them always more interesting. Browning and the Dramatic Monologue 2011-04-30T02:00:14.330Z What could be more inartistic than the disarrangement of the last two lines? Essays 2011-04-15T02:00:16.160Z I can change—in fact, it is the one compensation for all the inartistic demerits of my way of work—I can change as easily as I can talk of changing. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z I am not so crude and inartistic in my methods. By Wit of Woman 2011-04-13T02:00:13.247Z The exhibition is a great material success, notwithstanding the general disappointment at the poor and inartistic designs.” War Posters Issued by Belligerent and Neutral Nations 1914-1919 2011-04-04T02:00:11.403Z It's really inartistic, though we don't know it. The High Heart 2011-03-04T03:00:52.683Z The Gaoler's daughter's soliloquies are inartistic, and at times ludicrous. Philip Massinger 2011-02-25T03:01:15.270Z That such halting incoherency would make very slovenly inartistic narratives, I have only to look back on what I have written to see. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. I 2011-04-15T02:00:13.527Z In proportion as we find in literature abstract thinking, statement of general truth or plain fact, facsimile description or mere sentimentalizing, in that proportion do we find it dull and inartistic. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z He made his request with a certain confidence, but it filled her with a righteous panic; she pulled him up with an abruptness that was almost inartistic. Marriage 2011-02-22T03:00:06.867Z I am sorry the conclusion is so inartistic, so improbable. A Practical Novelist 2011-02-19T03:01:38.957Z All very inartistic indeed, as befits their use, as we shall see presently. A Japanese Boy 2011-02-14T03:00:37.363Z Here, perhaps, we find the reason why she is accused of being inartistic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 3 "Electrostatics" to "Engis" 2011-02-06T03:00:53.093Z It would be so inartistic as to be absurd in a line of poetry. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z The most advanced and cultured young lady will never get him to talk about metaphysics in the crush of a ballroom, nor to concern himself about the inartistic shape of the clothes we wear nowadays. A Lame Dog's Diary 2011-02-04T03:00:23.707Z Nearly all others of this kind are prudish, priggish, and inartistic. Literature for Children 2011-02-02T03:00:21.560Z It is inartistic, because it is done to allow the principal actor to leave the stage with applause. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z Much of his monumental work, however, is thoroughly inartistic and has been declared "a series of perfect models of what is worst in plastic art." The Century of Columbus 2011-01-29T03:00:17.380Z This little collection should contain the classic nonsense, but not all kinds of inartistic fooling and rude fun. Literature in the Elementary School 2011-02-23T03:00:31.073Z In a word, our cities are committed to conditions so inartistic that the task of making them beautiful seems impossible short of destroying and rebuilding them altogether. Twentieth Century Socialism What It Is Not; What It Is: How It May Come 2011-01-17T03:00:51.213Z The general reason for Tieck's failure is that in actuality these pictures were not ugly or inartistic to him. Tieck's Essay on the Boydell Shakspere Gallery 2011-01-14T03:00:49.540Z But an ending of this kind is inartistic. Shakespeare in the Theatre 2011-01-30T03:00:17.973Z There is a marked flamboyancy in the Venetian designs of the early eighteenth century, changed in the middle of the same century to a heavy splendor and inartistic grandeur. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z Avoid over-crowding the rooms with furniture and cluttering with too many pictures and useless and inartistic bric-a-brac, and dust-collectors. Handicraft for Girls A Tentative Course in Needlework, Basketry, Designing, Paper and Cardboard Construction, Textile Fibers and Fabrics and Home Decoration and Care 2011-01-06T03:00:45.093Z A directive from the "Chief Directorate for the Control of Entertainments and Repertory" forbids the performance of several popular but "pseudo-folk songs which are inartistic and trivial." U.S.-U.K. Secret Spy Pact Helped Win the Cold War 2010-06-29T07:15:00Z The change may be compared to that which the Roman satire underwent, from the inartistic medley of Ennius and Lucilius to the systematic treatment of some special subject in the satire of Persius and Juvenal. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The whole monument is crude and inartistic, but doubtless it was an expensive affair. Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands An inartistic arrangement in a garden will jar upon the eye of a critical observer, even as the ear is shocked by a discord in music. The Story of Malta The most uninteresting and inartistic thing ever put on wheels by the master mechanic of the unbeautiful, created mainly to shut off the view of mankind from what is really worth looking at. The Reclaimers His actions are the very opposite of the halberdier's, though the contrast is not so pointed as to become inartistic. The Adventurous Simplicissimus being the description of the Life of a Strange vagabond named Melchior Sternfels von Fuchshaim Virgil was the last poet likely to avail himself of so inartistic an innovation to give variety to his cadences. The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil The worst, because most inartistic, of all, is the plain white plate paper. A Treatise on Etching Dorian Gray struggling against the temptations of the world would have proved an inartistic and disturbing element in the life of Lord Henry. Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" "But," he said, "I cannot borrow from Alfred Simpson; it is altogether too easy—it is inartistic and gives me no satisfaction." The New Gulliver and Other Stories I said nothing, but I thought that would be a most inartistic breaking away from the part of the rustic Cicely, and a dragging in of scandalized Miss Morris. Life on the Stage Crude and inartistic they often are compared with the best of the Danish and even the Scottish ballads. Stories and Ballads of the Far Past Translated from the Norse (Icelandic and Faroese) with Introductions and Notes And if they must needs go further, and erect a more durable pile, it must still be of materials crude, inartistic, such as the earth itself affords, of unhewn stone. The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus Being solely a philosopher, his own writings are scientific and inartistic. A Critical History of Greek Philosophy Failing with the old Arlecchino, the Prince determined to try his own influence with the girl; but he had no intention of acting in a blundering and inartistic manner. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance When many lights were burning in one of these chandeliers an effect of splendour was produced that was not out of place in a ballroom, but the ordinary household varieties were extremely ugly and inartistic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 7 "Cerargyrite" to "Charing Cross" "It seems that this here Doctor Muck wouldn't play the national anthem, Mawruss, because he found it was inartistic," Abe Potash said as he turned to the editorial page of his daily paper. Worrying Won't Win To suffer one hand to chisel and clip the productions of another, to insert into a finished frame-work incongruous episodes intended to work out a pet idea, was as inartistic as it was pernicious. Maria Edgeworth The gilt-medallioned paper is inartistic; hard, bright colors are tiring to live with. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women It may be admitted, however, that the practitioners of the Ballade and the Rondeau soon fell into puerile and inartistic over-refinements. A Short History of French Literature If I changed and the others did not, the effect would be inartistic. Interpreters If a monochrome has “colour tones,” the effect is similar to that produced by a draped statue made out of variously coloured marbles—an inartistic jumble. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 7 "Drama" to "Dublin" In Paradise we have Cherubim and Kerûbs in the shape of winged bulls, but those are the clumsy inventions of an inartistic god. Anatole France The Revolt of the Angels Nondescript houses, constructed to please the passing fancy, have been the rule; mixed styles, inartistic lines, and scrollwork have disfigured them. Woman's Club Work and Programs First Aid to Club Women The day has past when “process work” is to be looked down upon as only fit for the cheapest, most inferior, and inartistic results. The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. They are at many points inartistically constructed; but the stuff is good, and the works therefore hold their own in spite of these drawbacks. Library of the World's Best literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 12 He is perfectly destitute of humor, and is the most inartistic creature in the world. A Frenchman in America Recollections of Men and Things This is all very terrible and inartistic; yet it is but an instance of the kind of mistake that we let ourselves in for by the ridiculous method of stage-setting which we practise. Japan A Record in Colour That is where I say that the criminal was inartistic. An Artist in Crime Amongst the influences affecting the illustrator, none, I venture to say, are more prejudicial than the acceptance by editors and publishers of inartistic drawings. The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. The effect was by no means inartistic, but Gwynne elevated his nose. Ancestors A Novel TO flirt inartistically is like stepping on a woman's toes when you are waltzing with her; it gives her real pain. Reflections of a Bachelor Girl If he were to think out the arrangement of his table from an artistic point of view as a bit of decoration, he would find it impossible to produce such a wealth of inartistic variety. Japan A Record in Colour The experiences gained in this effort disclosed to him with distinct clearness the radically inartistic and un-German qualities of the theatre, which outwardly and inwardly, morally as well as spiritually, exerted an equally pernicious influence. Life of Wagner Biographies of Musicians If he had the artistic sense he soon developed into a master-engraver and illustrator, and from crude and often weak and inartistic 67 drawings produced illustrations full of tone, quality, and beauty. The Art of Illustration 2nd ed. The velocity was set high, but it would be inartistic to blow a large hole through a psychotherapist. The Man Who Staked the Stars The goddess was an inartistic, many-breasted figure, the body carved with strange figures of animals, flowers, and fruits. Bible Studies in the Life of Paul Historical and Constructive We are saved from perfection by an almost entire lack of the artistic faculty, and, however great we are in other respects, I am sad to say we are thoroughly inartistic. Japan A Record in Colour This wholesale slaughter is useless as well as inartistic. Threads of Grey and Gold It is when one compares it with similar work of Franklin's, as "The Whistle," for example, that one is reminded of its inartistic form. Noah Webster American Men of Letters The Prussian remains as he has always been, inartistic, dull, and unromantic. German Problems and Personalities This style, which nowadays seems labored and inartistic, was excessively admired by the Elizabethans. An Introduction to Shakespeare Who but my inartistic countrymen would insist on their cabinets being smothered with endless and miscellaneous carvings? Japan A Record in Colour And yet her angry flush was inartistic, through so much pearl powder. When Ghost Meets Ghost Hawthorne's story, "The Pine-Tree Shillings," is written about this inartistic coinage. The Little Book of the Flag This lack of strain on the throat does away with all danger of a throaty quality of voice-production, which not only is highly inartistic but also leads to various throat troubles. The Voice Its Production, Care and Preservation She would have called him back, but he had no idea of lending himself to anything so inartistic. The Moving Finger When we go to a theatre here, we go to view a picture hung up on a wall, and generally a very foolish inartistic picture it is too. Japan A Record in Colour The nest is an inartistic one for a bird of gay plumage. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 2, No. 5 November 1897 Because she could not blot out the inartistic shock of ugly mortality, in very self-hate she yearned to get away. The Missourian Such is the power placed by our complicated, bewildering, and inartistic mode of procedure, in the hands of a rich Company. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit "Impossible!" would be pronounced here; "untrue!" would be responded there; "inartistic!" would be solemnly decided. Shirley Japan might be said to be as artistic as England is inartistic. Japan A Record in Colour In those inartistic compositions during the early Middle Ages, the figures were drawn facing the spectator, the head and feet in profile, differing in nothing from the Egyptian and Assyrian modes of representation. Needlework As Art Yet there were curious people who bewailed them as inartistic! The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards In fact, all the rural images of a rude but not inartistic mind came and went as this country boy thought of his beautiful Polly. The Humourous Story of Farmer Bumpkin's Lawsuit It is charged that his method is inartistic, and it is so in a sense, but it is the Whitman art and has its own value in his work. Whitman A Study The Kreutzer Sonata is a terrible story, but like all novels with a purpose, it is inartistic. Flowers of Freethought (Second Series) A pattern, for instance, repeated four times round a centre, or a natural flower repeated exactly, but lying north, south, east, and west, are more or less inartistic, we may say vulgar. Needlework As Art Flaxman Reed was doing well, very well indeed, but he had spoiled it all by that hopelessly inartistic touch. Audrey Craven He needed the tonic of sea air and of idleness and of contact with inartistic, care-free humanity. The Dominant Strain If you get warm doing that, then instantly your art gets inartistic! Erdgeist (Earth-Spirit) A Tragedy in Four Acts But the tinted statues of Gibson seemed to her inartistic. Italy, the Magic Land How is it that the mass of the world is always inartistic? War Letters of a Public-School Boy But then he remembered Walter's office, where you could not smoke, and the only spot of colour was that inartistic insurance calendar with its grim lists of figures. People of Position Its capacity for being profoundly played upon and emotionally excited by the inartistic unrealities of absurd characterisation and of absurd combinations of circumstance had been rendered unresponsive. Cleo The Magnificent Or, the Muse of the Real His story is not only grotesque in construction, but inartistic in all its parts. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 89, May, 1875 I am your pal, now and always, in affairs liable to prove inartistic to the King's, or Prince George's, stomach. Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess How is it that the one people in the world—the Greeks—who built up their State on what Arnold regards as ideal conditions, collapsed in headlong ruin before the inartistic but practical Romans? War Letters of a Public-School Boy It is becoming to nobody, and is essentially inartistic. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society The hideous and inartistic tombstones and monuments, the urns and angels, and the stereotyped conventionalities of graveyards in this country are all absent. The Empire of the East Nevertheless, we must confess that it appears to us puerile in conception, destitute of due motive, and crude and inartistic in treatment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 It was this thoroughness, this absolute fairness, that made of his work and of his inartistically constructed books the tremendous and lasting success which they were. Great Men and Famous Women. Vol. 5 A series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in History Our civilisation seems all so savage and bestial and filthy and inartistic; all so cowardly and devilish and despicable. British Socialism An Examination of Its Doctrines, Policy, Aims and Practical Proposals In fact, wherever artists have employed it, they show that there is nothing inherently inartistic about the stitch. Art in Needlework A Book about Embroidery A dozen men were in the room, men whose faces, despite an inartistic attempt to appear Oriental, he recognized at a glance and knew better than he knew his own. Cleek, the Master Detective Each window reached to the floor, and an inartistic iron grille removed all danger of falling out. In the Tail of the Peacock This effective performance, inartistic and almost grotesque, never fell to the level of the ridiculous, for native power was strong in the man. The Art of Disappearing These remarkable creations are so utterly tasteless, with masses of bristling shellwork and crude, ungainly statues, that we wondered how anything so inartistic could find a home upon Italian soil. In Château Land But twenty of them could not save the book, which, after dawdling till close upon its end, huddles itself up in a few pages, chiefly of récit, in a singularly inartistic fashion. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century All this hideous inartistic modernity contrasted sadly with the massive beauty and vast strength of our castellated home. Through Finland in Carts And the error of extolling an insignificant, inartistic writer—not only not moral, but directly immoral—executes its destructive work. Tolstoy on Shakespeare A Critical Essay on Shakespeare Even to her it suggested something not "artistic," and at Fairacres anything inartistic was duly frowned upon. Reels and Spindles A Story of Mill Life It is necessary to go to the Etruscan "black ware" to find a parallel to this most inartistic kind of ornamentation. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era Many were the visits he had made to Italy to acquire those queer-looking old mediæval plates, with their crude colouring and rude, inartistic drawings, and certainly he was an acknowledged expert in antique porcelain. The Seven Secrets It shows youth in a certain inequality, in a slight overdose of ornament, and especially in a very inartistic conclusion. A History of Elizabethan Literature My father was sitting at his desk working on the plan of a bungalow with Gothic windows and a stumpy tower like the lookout of a fire-station—an immensely stiff and inartistic design. The House with the Mezzanine and Other Stories Most of these inartistic productions are framed upon the assumption of the old alchymists that the physiological functions were regulated by planetary influence. Moon Lore The houses on either side were white and inartistic, with sloping roofs and square windows. The Stretton Street Affair I pass over the rude barbarian ages, whose gross and inartistic lying offers no claim to respectful and sympathetic interest, and no excuse but the lame one of selfish depravity, common to the race. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice Other than perspective of values, no importance should be attached to that which, with the inartistic mind, is regarded so important a quality. Pictorial Composition and the Critical Judgment of Pictures Such an addition to the brief pathos of Maria’s story, as narrated by Sterne, such a forced explanation of the circumstances, is peculiarly commonplace and inartistic. Laurence Sterne in Germany A Contribution to the Study of the Literary Relations of England and Germany in the Eighteenth Century The practice of burnishing the fruits produces a most inartistic result, destroying the natural bloom and violating the appearance of a natural apple. The Apple-Tree The Open Country Books—No. 1 Even when the Brussels influence was most direct the flowers and sprays were placed inartistically, while the scroll copies of the early Flemish schools can only be termed the imitative handiwork of a child. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework The use of birds and their plumage is as inartistic as it is cruel and barbarous. Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography, Vol. 1, No. 5 May, 1897 But he was usually at the disadvantage, from which Byron was certainly free, of being hampered by an inartistic propensity to make virtuous heroes triumph in the long run. Studies in Literature and History The nickeled lamp, which diffused an unpleasant odor, was of florid but very inartistic design; the plain stove stood in an ugly iron tray, and its galvanized pipe ran up, unconcealed, to the ceiling. Prescott of Saskatchewan Then he adds that the surgeon's knife has never been used upon a body; the blood has been smeared on by an inartistic hand. The Diamond Coterie As with all other laces, the introduction of machinery killed the industry as an art, and the only Blonde laces now made are by machine, and are quite inartistic and inelegant. Chats on Old Lace and Needlework The bare white walls, with here and there a crack which had carved a not inartistic line up the sides. The Transformation of Job A Tale of the High Sierras Many of the designs used on these objects were quaint and even grotesque, while the drawing of the figures and the arrangement of the subjects is often done in the crudest and most inartistic manner. A History of Art for Beginners and Students Painting, Sculpture, Architecture The method of their preparation was most inartistic, although it was effectual. Chats on Household Curios Yet unless some individual choice or feeling impresses the work of either kind it is not a re-presentation, but becomes an imitation, and therefore inartistic. Line and Form (1900) But the carpenter's trade was not confined to inartistic work. Babylonians and Assyrians, Life and Customs But these books are inartistic in several regards. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 11 Time was, in the Ellices, when the undue complaisance of a married woman meant a sudden and inartistic compression of the jugular, or a swift blow from the heavy, ebony-wood club of the wronged man. The Ebbing Of The Tide South Sea Stories - 1896 In many an old house the glass shade with its contents so inartistic, although removed from its place of honour on the parlour table, found a niche where it is preserved. Chats on Household Curios The frame is, indeed, the window through which the painter looks at his model, and nothing could be more offensively inartistic than this brutal attempt to thrust the model on the hither-side of this window! The Gentle Art of Making Enemies But now that it had dawned on him how utterly inartistic his work was, in humiliation and disgust he had wiped it out of existence. Mary Louise Solves a Mystery He chose his friends partly for their charm, and partly for their bad reputations; and the white flower of a blameless life was much too inartistic to have any attraction for him. The Green Carnation But in nothing is the inartistic character of English smoking so conspicuously exemplified as in the use of 'lights.' Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce It was so small, and so inartistically cut, that a man could undoubtedly make a dozen of them in a day. The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II It belongs to the class of inartistic performances of which Aristotle speaks so slightingly. The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 The demand is as inartistic and irrelevant as the criticism which suggested it, but it returns a sufficient reply. The Comedies of William Congreve Volume 1 [of 2] Of course a real carouse is horribly inartistic. The Green Carnation There can be only one reason for this inartistic mixture of analogy and antithesis. Mushrooms on the Moor This book is inartistic; it is made up of unrelated parts; the characters do not grow; they change. Confessions of a Book-Lover On an April afternoon she came, like a dark-eyed Flora, her hands loaded with daffodils that might bring a glow of the beauty of spring even to an inartistic spirit. Jewel Weed The other was a coloured picture representing a "plate"—a satire on the poor and inartistic "coloured plates" then being issued by S. C. Hall's "Art Union." The History of "Punch" That a play, a novel, or a short story with a happy ending is necessarily a commercialized and inartistic piece of work. The American Credo A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind It is amazing and inartistic, however, that after all her awkwardness she should fail. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866 The art of good living alone, though all those things I have mentioned only exist on its account, is untaught, unmethodical, inartistic, and supposed to come by the light of nature! § ii. Plutarch's Morals Each is an inartistic attempt at a posthumous likeness. A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles They are the true Americans, but make up a small number compared to the inartistic whole. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home A table spread with fruits and nuts and decorated with flowers is artistic; the same table laden with decaying flesh and blood, and maybe entrails, is not only inartistic—it is disgusting. No Animal Food and Nutrition and Diet with Vegetable Recipes "It would be a sin to save such an inartistic creation." Barbara in Brittany Yet in spite of these inartistic surroundings it has lost none of its tender charm. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 I submit that the wildest extremes to which well-meaning but injudicious dress reformers have gone in the past have been marked by nothing more inartistic than the costume of the reigning belle in 1860. The Arena Volume 4, No. 22, September, 1891 Cheap prints, chromos, and other deadly things are ground out by the million and sold, to clog still deeper the art sense of an inartistic people. As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home He has probably discovered it as soon as you have, and will add or subtract as soon as it can be done without making an inartistic break in the dynamic continuity of the accompaniment. Essentials in Conducting Under these influences was rapidly assembled a complete arsenal of allegories, allusions and symbols that gave birth to an art which was possibly very learned, but which was inartistic to the last degree. Chinese Painters A Critical Study It was once thought otherwise, but I am arguing here, not against realism per se, but against the inartistic introduction of gross episodes. My Contemporaries In Fiction We'd fondly looked towards him for an eulogistic blessing, But got instead a general and comprehensive curse, We are, as he informed us, with an emphasis distressing, By nature inartistic, and are daily getting worse. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 And he showed a dagger hung around his neck by a deer's sinew, on whose wooden handle a woman's face was not inartistically carved. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims One of the lively "weeklies," snapping at the deadly "monthlies," said the whole thing was "grossly inartistic"—wasn't that? Embarrassments He may have fancied, as his friend Forster also did, that Pickwick was a rather jejune juvenile thing, inartistically planned, and thrown off, or rather rattled off. Pickwickian Manners and Customs Every personal soul, however "inartistic," is an artist in this sense; and every personal life thus considered is an effective or ineffective "work of art." The Complex Vision Or dares we snap our fingers at this haughty ipse dixit, And read our inartistic books in very great content? Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, February 18, 1893 Suddenly from the Town Square at the foot of the hill rose the sound of a drum not inartistically touched, and both the governor and the captain rose to their feet. Standish of Standish A story of the Pilgrims While the work was inartistic, it was easy to make out the letters "F. M." Klondike Nuggets and How Two Boys Secured Them With the exception of the steady glance of the eyes and an occasional hard smile, that seemed out of place upon such a face, the expression was that of stone inartistically cut. The Ape, the Idiot & Other People Artistic arrangement helps an advertisement because carefully balanced matter is more attractive than inartistic combinations. Practical English Composition: Book II. For the Second Year of the High School Unfortunately, unprogressive builders are still adhering to this inartistic plan. The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments The paint was worn and dingy; the wallpapers so old-fashioned and discoloured that all Mrs Thornton’s painstaking efforts after cheerfulness and beauty were foiled by the inartistic background. The Fortunes of the Farrells It is a little difficult to explain, but ugly things—inartistic things, jar! Flaming June The only legitimate purpose of the short story is to amuse, and didacticism in literature is always inartistic. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story “My dear Baron,” gasped Mr Bunker, “I could not put such an inartistic end to so fine a joke for the world.” The Lunatic at Large As day broke other columns concentrated on the station buildings, until the inartistic surroundings of the little centre became black with men and animals. On the Heels of De Wet They are meant to mark all sorts of property and chattels, dead and alive, movable and immovable, and are drawn out, or burnt into, quite inartistically, without any attempt of colouring or sculpturing. Notes and Queries, Number 190, June 18, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. The gateway to the courtyard was repaired and modernised by Bishop Barrington, with the existing inartistic result. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See The amateur, content with knowing that he is recounting what did actually happen, falls into the most inartistic ways, because he does not understand that facts are properly only crude material for the fictionist. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story But show me a noise-loving city and I will show you an inartistic one. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques His sorrow as he went away was dignified with regret for an inartistic gentleman. Here are Ladies I cannot understand how Wayne can be so inartistic. The Napoleon of Notting Hill The bel canto is, simply, beautiful singing, the result of perfect technique, and is opposed to effects which are not truly artistic, though no doubt often highly expressive to the unmusical and the inartistic. Voice Production in Singing and Speaking Based on Scientific Principles (Fourth Edition, Revised and Enlarged) Usually they are irrelevant and inartistic asides by the author. Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story It is not a collection of clumsy inartistic attempts at ornamental writing, but high-class, effective work, which should be seen and studied by every student of illumination. Illuminated Manuscripts She was a clever, vigorous, well-educated, inartistic, kindly, managing woman. A Flat Iron for a Farthing or Some Passages in the Life of an only Son His manner in speaking was inartistic, and although he was a graduate of Harvard, he indulged himself in the use of country phrases and rustic pronunciation. Reminiscences of Sixty Years in Public Affairs, Vol. 1 More or less butter was mixed with the sandy chin whiskers and an inartistic yellow smooch down the front of his coat showed that the eggs had followed him. Horses Nine Stories of Harness and Saddle This cartoon would be incomplete and would deserve condemnation as inartistic if it were not redeemed by the priest and the old woman. Raemaekers' Cartoons With Accompanying Notes by Well-known English Writers An evident uneasiness is always inartistic, and hence does not belong where art is to be embodied. How to Sing [Meine Gesangskunst] Remember, that while an inartistic room, confused as to line and colour-scheme can absolutely destroy the effect of a perfect gown, an inartistic, though costly gown can likewise be a blot on a perfect room. Woman as Decoration Evidently to put forth truths so baldly was inartistic. Suzanna Stirs the Fire A crude and inartistic symbolism is revolting to a spiritually-unfolded consciousness. Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul Sounding notes, even sounding them smoothly, clearly, and rapidly, is not necessarily making music, and a succession of them without warmth and coloring is truly as inartistic as painting without shading. For Every Music Lover A Series of Practical Essays on Music Some said it was inartistic; others said it was in keeping with the name of the church, and had a right place there as part of its inner adornment. The Crucifixion of Philip Strong What else but an inartistic mixture of Scribe libretto and Northern mythology? Visionaries The letter was evidently in a feminine hand; but the characters were rudely and inartistically formed, while every here and there a heavy down-stroke or flourish marred the beauty of the page. Dead Man's Rock You don't know what small, mean, inartistic 'cuts' enlivened your grandmother's nursery library, that is, when the books were illustrated at all. Mrs. Overtheway's Remembrances This was an amiable, inartistic trait in his character, though it may be a trifle negative; and for a positive virtue, as I say, he enjoyed his drink, his overpowering dirt, and his vicious life. Masques & Phases And he was poet enough to prefer an unfinished sonnet to one with an inartistic ending. The Parts Men Play The first is of the rather inartistically high level of profanity maintained by the speech of Davis and Huish. Adventures in Criticism As, for instance, a combination of beets, tomatoes and carrots would not only be inartistic but also a poor combination of foods. Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book Numerous New Recipes Based on Present Economic Conditions The indiscriminate and inartistic way in which throughout the land advertisements of all sorts crowd our station walls and platforms is an outrage on good taste. Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland They give it the inartistic and inappropriate appellation of "The Stump," due to the fact that it rises throughout its height of more than three hundred feet without much diminution in size. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland That is not only inconvenient but inartistic planning, and shows a want of logic and consideration, and, in addition to this, a want of feeling for artistic effect. Scientific American Supplement, No. 633, February 18, 1888 He had expected to find himself in a palace of gilt, to find the prevailing note of the place an unrestrained and inartistic gorgeousness. The Double Life Of Mr. Alfred Burton He is not picturesque; perhaps he is positively inartistic; he is neither a gentleman nor a blackguard; culture is angry and incredulous. Art Those flaming ferocities known as "turkey-red" cloths, which seem to fairly fly at one, are not only inartistic but altogether too suggestive of economy in laundering to be appetizing table companions. The Complete Home In the immediate neighborhood a monument has been raised in memory of Gray—a huge bulk of stone of inartistic and unpleasing design. British Highways And Byways From A Motor Car Being A Record Of A Five Thousand Mile Tour In England, Wales And Scotland This mean, inartistic, dirty place certainly suggests moral depravity. Hinduism and Buddhism, An Historical Sketch, Vol. 2 It is highly artificial and inartistic, and Grimm points out that it is obvious that in penning it the author did not have the Nibelungenlied, as we know it, before him. Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine And it is because they are rarely fully obeyed, that so much poetry is inartistic. Essays on Education and Kindred Subjects Everyman's Library But every one who has had any experience of life will know that her surprises are sometimes very bewildering; that fiction is nothing but uncommon experience made ordinary, or heaped inartistically upon a single character. Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge Extracted From His Letters And Diaries, With Reminiscences Of His Conversation By His Friend Christopher Carr Of The Same College More need not be quoted, for the story is always the same—delays caused by intrigues and the whims and caprice of singers, and the indifference of inartistic directors. Richard Wagner Composer of Operas A struggling tyro who makes an inartistic attempt to adorn his discourse with the most brilliant passages from Bossuet renders his production not only worthless but grotesque. The Young Priest's Keepsake In Gounod's libretto, the intangible reproaches which Margaret addresses to herself are materialised in the form of Mephistopheles, a proceeding which is both meaningless and inartistic, though perhaps dramatically unavoidable. The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory. "Results were all men had to do with," she said; "everything was inartistic to them but a few yards of linen and a straight petticoat." Winter Evening Tales Well-made replicas have a value that is overlooked only by the inartistic. The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology Anyhow, in the train you wanted to go by there were five people killed outright, and fourteen others crunched up and mangled in a most inartistic style. Austin and His Friends This, in some cases, may lead him to make of a somewhat inartistically designed jewel a beautifully proportioned one. Shakespeare and Precious Stones Treating of the Known References of Precious Stones in Shakespeare's Works, with Comments as to the Origin of His Material, the Knowledge of the Poet Concerning Precious Stones, and References as to Where the Precious Stones of His Time Came from The roan cow disliked music and kicked over the milk-pail with inartistic persistence. Kenny She stopped crimping her hair: Max said it was unnatural and inartistic. Winter Evening Tales That portrait had been painted in water-colours, in a rather inartistic manner, by a friendly neighbour, but the likeness was striking, as every one averred. A Reckless Character And Other Stories But he still stayed on the farm, and dreamed in his studio and tried to teach his little, inartistic Edith to draw, and mourned. The Vehement Flame How silly," said Auntie, as she forced a cigarette inartistically into a holder, adding abruptly, as her commonplace mind jumped at a commonplace loop-hole, "Where is Jan Cuxson? Leonie of the Jungle Unimaginative and inartistic people do not know what they want. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy "Don't be dignified; there is nothing more inartistic, except a woman who is trying to be brave on an inadequate income." The Firing Line This is not saying that much spontaneous verse has not been written in this country; much has been, but the singer's voice has too often been uncultivated, and the product inartistic. The Golden Treasury of American Songs and Lyrics The elements in some of the Hindoo myths specially repulsive to European taste are their monstrosity, their inartistic and hideous exaggeration, their accumulation of sanguinary horrors, and their childish triviality. Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Official We admire the marble statue and we despise as inartistic the colored wax figures. The Photoplay A Psychological Study The present failure of the theatre to encourage what is best in modern art is due to the fact that the public is unimaginative and inartistic. Crowds A Moving-Picture of Democracy His theories are not only inartistically prominent, but are worthless and immoral. A History of English Prose Fiction They cannot see the yet quite evident truth that the rank and file of every land is about equally inartistic. Your United States Impressions of a first visit Now look at them as they were three centuries B.C.: plodding, self- contained and self-mastered, square-dealing and unsubtle, above all things contemning beauty, wholly inartistic. The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 The melodrama can hardly be played without it, unless a most inartistic use of printed words is made. The Photoplay A Psychological Study Most savages exhibit some rudiments of it, either in drawing or carving human or animal figures; but, almost without exception, these figures are rude and such as would be executed by the ordinary inartistic child. Darwinism (1889) They call it cheap and inartistic: but this is mere pedantry and prudery. The English Novel She half accepted the criticism often made of her in Paris and London that her Puritan inheritance had given an inartistic rigidity to her moral prospect. The Street Called Straight A dozen men were in the room—men whose faces, despite an inartistic attempt to appear Oriental, he recognized at a glance and knew better than he knew his own. Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces But if its use is not exaggerated, the method is legitimate, in striking contrast to the inartistic use of the same words as leaders between the pictures. The Photoplay A Psychological Study It is always excusable to retain an ugly, inartistic thing—if it is useful; but an ornament must be beautiful in line or in colour, or it belies its name. The Art of Interior Decoration The mechanism was often too mechanical: taken with the author's steady and honest, but somewhat inartistic determination to explain everything it sometimes produces effects positively ridiculous to us. The English Novel Lithography as a means of artistic reproduction has suffered much in public esteem by being put to all manner of inartistic trade uses. The Practice and Science of Drawing She had always thought that sort of thing ridiculous and inartistic. The Bell in the Fog and Other Stories Valentine refused the landlord's offer of a chair, and stood looking rather contemptuously at the inartistic improprieties of the prints. Flames In style and in spirit it is perfect Heywood: simple and noble in emotion and conception, primitive and straightforward in construction and expression; inartistic but not ineffectual; humble and facile, but not futile or prosaic. The Age of Shakespeare But the welding of the Sea Maiden ending on to the Cinderella formula is clearly a later and inartistic junction, and implies rather imperfect assimilation of the Cinderella formula. More English Fairy Tales There is something harsh, abrupt, and inartistic in such a stage-direction as ‘Canute strangles Edric, flings his body into the stream, and gazes out.’ Reviews This led to an artistry manifested by her nice work in music and decoration and also by an excessive displeasure at the inartistic. The Nervous Housewife Indeed, to me the most inartistic thing in this age of ours is not the indifference of the public to beautiful things, but the indifference of the artist to the things that are called ugly. Miscellanies "But Mary," interposed Frederica, with an inartistic directness that was in painful contrast to the cadenza, "what has the Major got to say to Doctor Aherne?" Mount Music But the idea is materialised into a form of grotesque horror, and all the charm of the atmosphere and the grace of the words cannot redeem a conclusion so inartistic in its painfulness. Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory The book is a curious but not inartistic combination of the mental attitude of Mr. Matthew Arnold with the style of Lord Tennyson. Reviews But this accounts for only a small part of the grossly inartistic features of Japan. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Though inartistic and uncouth, That effort of a novice hand Exemplifies a striking truth, And may Time's ravages withstand, To be by future ages read, When years and centuries have fled. Mountain idylls, and Other Poems We see in our imaginations wonderful pictures, and we hear wonderful words, for everything we dream of partakes of an unknown perfection and completely throws into the shade the inartistic commonplaces of daily life. A Tale of a Lonely Parish The local ware very poor, coarse, gritty, inartistic. How to Observe in Archaeology As a general rule the planting in tubs, kettles, kegs and similar receptacles is not only inartistic, but gives the plant very confined and cramped quarters. The Library of Work and Play: Gardening and Farming. And these inartistic features will be found accompanying scrupulous neatness in well-swept walks, new sub-shrines, floral decorations, and much that pleases the eye—a strange compound of the beautiful and the ugly. Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic Extravagance is inartistic—so for that reason I could wish for moderation in stage dressing. Stage Confidences Still, this poor woman, with her inartistic eye and foolish heart, loves this wretched shelter, and would pour out her idiotic tears if she were leaving it for Paradise. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series This stone has another claim to our notice beyond the inartistic design. In Search of Gravestones Old and Curious She thought with respect of his artistic gifts, which she was too inartistic to appreciate. The Price of Love He had reached however inartistically the point at which he had been aiming. Ensign Knightley and Other Stories It was most absurd; but his mysticism survived the absurdity, so richly was it nourished by news from the strange, inartistic colonies, where architecture was not understood. The Roll-Call It was not disfigured by japanned boxes inartistically lettered in white, as are most lawyer's offices. The Regent But already she was deep in the article in the two-year-old magazine, or rather in its not inartistic illustrations. The Shadow of the Rope Expediency is his faith, pliancy his creed; lying is inartistic, also dangerous. The Italians From these reflections it is only too plain that the automobile —like that other inartistic instrument of torture, the grand piano —is not adapted to the drawing-room. Two Thousand Miles on an Automobile Being a Desultory Narrative of a Trip Through New England, New York, Canada, and the West, By "Chauffeur" 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. The Secret City "Faust" was abused a good deal as a pantomime, a distorted caricature of Goethe, and a thoroughly inartistic production. The Story of My Life Recollections and Reflections Of course, Boswell's life is inartistic enough—it wanders along, here a letter, there a lot of criticism, here a talk, there a reminiscence. Father Payne The first strophe of this inartistic idyl will doubtless be all the reader will care to see. The Mystery of Metropolisville Equally inartistic was his version of some of the Psalms in the same metre. The Glories of Ireland His emotions, not his intellect, kept him Churchman, and he shrank, with the over-sensitiveness of the cultured scholar, from the idea of allowing the old traditions to be handled roughly by inartistic hands. Annie Besant An Autobiography The modern work of countries where gold is found in quantities is commonplace, vulgar and inartistic, when compared with the work of the old Irish period. Ireland, Historic and Picturesque Here nature co-works with the most common and inartistic of human industries, as they are generally held, with faculties as subtle and beautiful as those which she brings to bear upon the choicest flowers. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's She was bravely sustained, however, by her husband, Colonel Miller, who never flinched in escorting his wife and her coadjutors, however inartistic their costumes might be. Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897 The workers in silver, copper, and brass are many, but their productions are usually rough and inartistic. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil 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 Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield His pen has never been debased by an inartistic and antiquated idealism. The Eyes of the World But when she is handling her curates, it is a savage and utterly inartistic humour that inspires her. The Three Brontës It pictured an ancient Grecian ruin, a gloomy, heavy thing, but not inartistic. Fate Knocks at the Door A Novel 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. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860 We have banished prologue and afterpiece as something old-fashioned and inartistic, but never turn one solitary eyelash when Hamlet follows up his death by rushing before the curtain and grinning his thanks. The Palmy Days of Nance Oldfield The house was inelegantly overloaded with luxurious furniture, money wasted by some inartistic purchasers. Russell H. Conwell Contrary to all prophecies, and with that inartistic disregard of the probable which events often show, they had been very happy together. Not Pretty, but Precious His emotions, not his intellect, kept him Churchman, and he shrunk with the over-sensitiveness of the cultured scholar from the idea of allowing the old traditions, to be handled roughly by inartistic hands. Autobiographical Sketches He does not sag in front at the waist, protruding his abdomen in not only an inartistic, but an unhealthy manner; but he strides masterfully forward with an air of inspiriting "aliveness." What Dress Makes of Us Moreover he had the good old-fashioned contempt for players, characteristic both of the Tory and the inartistic mind. Samuel Johnson To slur over the faults and failings of the great is not only inartistic: it is also faint-hearted and unjust. Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals In Two Volumes, Volume I. It deals largely with their flowers, which are commonly badly designed, inartistic in color, and ill-smelling. The Devil's Dictionary Remember that in her secluded life she had heard only such harmony as Elvira Reynolds evoked from her piano or George Reynolds from his flute, and the Reynolds temperament was distinctly inartistic. The Village Watch-Tower No. 47, with a line at the neck-band, crossed bands in the centre of the shoulders, and lines across the back, is obviously inartistic. What Dress Makes of Us Indeed, to me the most inartistic thing in this age of ours is not the indifference of the public to beautiful things, but the indifference of the artist to the things that are called ugly. Essays and Lectures But for all who saw them through a less mythical medium, the Miss Irwines were quite superfluous existences—inartistic figures crowding the canvas of life without adequate effect. Adam Bede It is very banal and very inartistic when a poor woman at the Adelphi says, "Do you think I will sell my own child?" Heretics You will get no finish from either — the lines are often blurred, the design but half fulfilled; and yet the effect is not inartistic. A Lute of Jade : selections from the classical poets of China This is of course wholly inartistic, but may often find its true office in keeping a noisy, turbulent and uneducated audience aware of "what is going on." The Dramatic Values in Plautus And when we reached Philippi, at the outset we were met With an inartistic gusto I can never quite forget. Songs and Other Verse But in a small sweet idyll, with no backbone of intention to it, these things are inartistic. The Incomplete Amorist He did not know how inartistic love can be when love is desperate. The Best British Short Stories of 1922 It is evident that in the first case symbolic means artistic, and realistic inartistic, while in the second, realistic is synonymous with artistic and symbolic with inartistic. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic My daughters have a picture of her, taken at the age, possibly, of six, which gives inartistic prominence to 'Grandpa Winship's ears'—the left larger than the right. The Bacillus of Beauty A Romance of To-day Nor did the inartistic appearance of the turkey prevent the critic from coming back for more! A Little Bush Maid "But it is such a pitiably inartistic little history!" the Duchess protested. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes "I shouldn't do that," said Diavolo, feeling that such a proceeding would be an inartistic anticlimax. The Heavenly Twins Here it is clear that style signifies, not the form, nor a mode of it, but improper and pretentious expression, which is one form of the inartistic. Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic The great San Mateo valley looked like a close forest of ancient oaks broken inartistically by the roofs of houses shorn of their chimneys. The Sisters-In-Law Whatever their source, there was, either in the composition itself or in his mode of playing, not a little of the inartistic, that is, the lawless. Mary Marston A staid German family dabbling in art in its leisure hours—the most inartistic, the most Philistine of all Royal families—this is the lesson that the Victorian Exhibition impresses upon us. Modern Painting Consequently the disintegrators of the Odyssey, when they are logical, are reduced to averring that the poem is an exceedingly inartistic whole, a whole not artistic at all. Homer and His Age The result has been that England, the most inartistic of the modern races, has produced the largest number of exquisite literary artists. The Poet's Poet : essays on the character and mission of the poet as interpreted in English verse of the last one hundred and fifty years All that was really great in art was Greek, but they were content to receive it through the tradition of the most inartistic nation that ever lived. Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama The cadence of the Greek hexameter would be marred by so inartistic a device. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius That we have to do with an older story lengthened out by some inartistic compiler, seems only too probable. Egyptian Tales, Translated from the Papyri Second series, XVIIIth to XIXth dynasty We do not expect a financier to back a young inventor because he is a genius, in preference to backing some other inventor because he has discovered a saleable, though quite inartistic, breakfast food. If I May It annoys the eye and is usually inartistic. How to Prepare and Serve a Meal; and Interior Decoration Why did the very name of Italian opera become a by-word for all that is frivolous and inartistic in dramatic art? Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde"; an essay on the Wagnerian drama Those who wish to know the inartistic expedients to which he resorted to gain applause should read the prologues of Terence, which are most valuable materials for literary criticism. The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius A large proportion of the old buildings and all the unsightly, lofty, and inartistic ones were cleared away and replaced with structures of the low, broad, roomy style adapted to the new ways of living. Equality Here I paused, for I knew that I had reached the last outpost of respectable, inartistic London. Not George Washington — an Autobiographical Novel But interest seldom greatly slackens until the end, which, it must be further confessed, is often suddenly brought about in a very inartistic fashion. A History of English Literature The cheaper restaurants are apt to be English, sincere in material, but heavy and unattractive in expression; in everything culinary the island touch seems hopelessly inartistic. London Films Bob, who was blunt and inartistic, merely detested her from every point of view. Back to Billabong The execution of Ben Hur is crude and commonplace, but the conception is by no means inartistic. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship 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. The House of Whispers The whole business of the burglars was a particularly inartistic trick, unworthy of its author. Prince Zaleski The conditions of the entry or the reëntry of a player might explain some of those lengthy monologues that seem so inartistic to modern dramatists. Halleck's New English Literature Tiring of the inartistic prospect she sauntered out and downstairs to see what her maid might be about. The Green Mouse This is, however, essentially an inartistic practice, and one cannot regret that it has gone out of fashion. Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship Edgar Hamilton sat with his eyes fixed upon the dingy, inartistic, smoke-begrimed windows of the chambers opposite. The House of Whispers I shan't take any calls—after dying, it's too inartistic, isn't it? The Powers and Maxine Perhaps because I am an artist, and it seemed inartistic to intervene—to interrupt the action at an inopportune moment—to stultify what promised to be an unusually involved complication. A Man and His Money 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. England's Antiphon This procedure, though inartistic to be sure, is in some contingencies the only kind that will serve. The Century Vocabulary Builder We had all expected to be blissful in Italy, and so the inartistic and inhuman accessories of life were harder to bear there than elsewhere. Memories of Hawthorne But it was not quite time for that yet: it would be inartistic to suggest that just a couple of weeks of hatlessness had produced so desirable a result. Queen Lucia Sometimes an episode is so inartistically introduced as to be almost clumsy. Fielding In fact all the mechanical preparations were clumsy and inartistic, and the final scenes of the execution, therefore, revolting in the extreme. The Life, Crime, and Capture of John Wilkes Booth Even to Dennis's uncultivated eye there was an inartistic formality about the whole establishment. Barriers Burned Away The doubles of people who are naturally foppish on earth will be foppish in Utopia, and people who have no natural taste on earth will have inartistic equivalents. A Modern Utopia It is only the inartistic who hold that black is black and white is white, unconditionally, irretrievably; and who have invented the proverb "He'd say black's white" to express the Sophist in excelsis. Without Prejudice "And how's Sardanapalus?" she asked, in a somewhat hurried voice, making an inartistic attempt to change the subject. What's Bred in the Bone Usually I look literary-lean and nobly dissatisfied, but yesterday I swallowed a British Female Novelist by accident, and that accounts for my inartistic air of cheerfulness. The Valley of Vision : a Book of Romance an Some Half Told Tales One bright day, when everything stood out with glaring distinctness, he seemed provoked beyond measure by this inartistic rigidity, and stormed through the store at a great rate. Barriers Burned Away It is a tedious, inartistic novel, with none of the relief that would exist in actual life. Essays on Russian Novelists One became timid and cautious and didactic, and other inartistic things. Love's Pilgrimage Emphasis in gesture is just as inartistic—and therefore ineffective— as emphasis in tone or language. The Art of the Story-Teller You would have said she had been painting, and painting very inartistically, so little was the red shaded into the surrounding white. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood But the Fohn did not materialise; in the walnut and chestnut forest around them not a leaf stirred; and gradually the mountains cleared, became inartistically distinct, and turned a beautiful but disturbing dark-blue colour. In Secret The former would be rather inartistic after the other historical notices of poetry that have occurred in the poem: the latter is not easily reconciled with the mention of Homer. The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry Margaret Gordon was dead and buried; the picture was a cheap and inartistic production in an impossible frame of gilt and plush; yet the vitality in that face dominated its surroundings still. Kilmeny of the Orchard It may be inartistic, or my use of it all wrong. Taken Alive Referring to pages 191 and 192 the writer still craves the reader's indulgence for the apparently irrelevant matter introduced, as well as for the inartistic grouping of the many detached materials, for reasons there given. Thomas Hariot, the Mathematician, the Philosopher and the Scholar We arrived in the midst of the musical festivities, and I was terribly disappointed to find how very badly and inartistically the preliminary arrangements had been made. My Life — Volume 2 It's always the way with the inartistic professions: when theyre beaten in argument they fall back on intimidation. The Doctor's Dilemma A spurious Japanese dragon in faence, an inartistic monstrosity dear to her heart, at which I had often railed, grinned forgivingly at me from the mantel-piece. The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne : a Novel That this combination is an inartistic one, on that point we are no doubt at one, but what he has effected by this means is nevertheless in the highest degree remarkable.... Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Complete In fact, for him to die elsewhere would be inartistic and insincere. Revolution, and Other Essays I fully agree with Kullak that too strict adherence to the marking of this section produces the effect of an "inartistic precipitation" which robs the movement of clarity. Chopin : the Man and His Music One-half their pleasure in walking on the street would vanish like a dream, and an equal proportion of the philosopher's happiness in watching them would perish in the barren prospect of an inartistic nudity. The Fiend's Delight The signora then showed Hugh to his room, a small, dispiriting and not overclean little chamber which looked out upon the backs of the adjoining houses, all of which were high and inartistic. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo That this combination is an inartistic one, on that point we are no doubt at one, but what he has effected by this means is nevertheless in the highest degree remarkable…. Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 1 Such an attitude is as inartistic and offensive as for a duchess to think that fine courtesy and consideration could not be found among washerwomen. From a College Window If it had been printed so, we should equally have thought its omission barbarous and inartistic. The Altar Fire The touching effectiveness of his tale is ever neutralized by the uncomeliness of his raiment and the inartistic besmirchedness of his countenance. The Fiend's Delight The house, high and inartistic, was a relic of the days of the dandies, when country squires had their town houses, and before labour found itself in London drawing-rooms. Mademoiselle of Monte Carlo It is stupid, inartistic, unimaginative and enslaving; there could not be four better French reasons for detesting it. Fighting France, from Dunkerque to Belfort Herminia, on the other hand, belonged more strictly to the intellectual and somewhat inartistic English type. The Woman Who Did England is no longer the stupidly inartistic country of early Victorian times; there's a true delight in music and painting, and a much more general appreciation of the good in literature. Our Friend the Charlatan If he had put it this way, he would have been tiresome, inartistic, but perhaps truer. Essays Before a Sonata To this proposition Mr. Hand nodded an assent, at the same time consulting a large, heavily engraved gold watch of the most ponderous and inartistic design. The Titan The walls of these rooms were decorated not inartistically with a few colored prints and with cuts from illustrated papers, many and divers. The Man from Glengarry; a tale of the Ottawa When Artemus went behind, the moon would become nervous and flickering, dancing up and down in the most inartistic and undecided manner. The Complete Works of Artemus Ward — Part 6: Artemus Ward's Panorama Why in the name of all that was inartistic did she choose red; not a deep, rich crimson, but a screeching vermilion, like a fireman's shirt? The Portygee She was girlish, thoughtless, imprudent, inartistic, and very unlike a de Courcy. Doctor Thorne They were rather like animals, patient, inartistic, hopeless. The Titan Remember that in her secluded existence she had heard only such harmony as Elvira Reynolds evoked from her piano or George Reynolds from his flute, and the Reynolds temperament was distinctly inartistic. A Village Stradivarius Every step brought him nearer to London, farther from his own sober inartistic life. Dubliners Her face was inartistic—that of a peevish virago. A Room with a View The English are inartistic for the same reason that they are unsociable. Character "Was beauty ever environed within and without by such desperately prosaic and inartistic surroundings?" mused Van Berg. A Face Illumined In the artistic home—to paraphrase Dr. Watts—every prospect pleases and only man is inartistic. They and I As I am writing in the present tense, such a pause would be inartistic, and shall not be made. Yet Again Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible. Sketches in Lavender, Blue and Green The paper or cloth which covers the greater part of the surface of half-bound books is usually inartistic and even ugly. The Library In short, he was an artist in a community for long most inartistic. Adventures Among Books It is inartistic, and it sets a bad example to the younger men. Told After Supper The whole effect was cheerful, though I fear inartistic, and sadly out of keeping with the character of the house. The Lock and Key Library Classic Mystery and Detective Stories: Old Time English Hog and hominy are not only inartistic to my stomach, but they give indigestion to my moral sentiments. The Gentle Grafter But the externals of the scene, which are briefly and inartistically described, soon disappear, and we plunge abruptly into the subject of the dialogue. Laws Herbert Spencer's Descriptive Sociology presents an unequalled mass of facts regarding existing primitive races, but, unfortunately, its inartistic method of arrangement makes it repellent to the general reader. A History of Science — Volume 1 But even such inartistic juxtapositions are much less common than we are apt at times to think. The Soul of the Far East And frequently the skill of the criminalists consists in deriving important material from apparently worthless statements, by way of discovering the proper significance of simple, inartistic, but in most cases excellently definitive images. Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students His best stories, essays, and poems went begging among them, and yet, each month, he read reams of dull, prosy, inartistic stuff between all their various covers. Martin Eden |
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