单词 | purple passage |
例句 | As the two women’s tentative friendship develops in intriguing ways, Mr. Oswald and Ms. Woodard push the action beyond the play’s more purple passages. | 'Nightlands': ?Nightlands? by Sylvan Oswald at Here Arts Center - Review 2011-10-13T22:06:03Z In his most purple passages, he writes like Oscar Wilde on steroids; there's sometimes a Paterian luxuriance in the prose, a specifying gorgeousness. Father Brown: the empathetic detective 2013-01-18T20:00:03Z Until 1959, the publisher of a book that contained any "purple passage" that might have a "tendency to deprave and corrupt those whose minds are open to such immoral influences" was liable to imprisonment. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z But only rarely do these relatively purple passages transcend their literary origins, despite Mr. Kiggell’s efforts to hack through the verbiage of an author still finding his voice. | 'Burmese Days': ?Burmese Days? at 59E59 Theaters - Review 2011-11-17T03:03:15Z “The way the newspapers described it was ‘for his purple passages,’ meaning dirty words,” said Nesteroff. 5 comics who were arrested onstage 2022-12-12T05:00:00Z Effects like these, not purple passages, not epigrams nor aphorisms, are the test of oratory. The Life of William Ewart Gladstone (Vol 2 of 3) She merely put some of the thoughtful commonplaces of her time and school into wooden verse, occasionally grandiose but never grand, and her purple passages have the purple of plush not of velvet. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) None of these works can be described as interesting, though the treatise on the 'Demon of Socrates' contains some characteristic purple passages. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura See the purple passage rise, Many arch'd of centuries; Genius built it long and vast, And o'er it social knowledge pass'd. The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume V. The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century But at least two purple passages exist to give immortality to Faustus's passion and despair. The Growth of English Drama But there is a general lifelessness and lack of movement for which these purple passages barely atone. Minor Poems of Michael Drayton The purple passages themselves, those which linger in the memory and to which the reader turns back, linger by their sense and not by their sound. Thomas Henry Huxley; A Sketch Of His Life And Work Big nights and days and moments, all purple passages and freedoms, thronged my memory. John Barleycorn One must taste death for a few centuries of such agony ere he can receive sanction for purple passages. The Mutiny of the Elsinore As my drinking grew heavier, I began to note more and more that it was in the drinking bouts the purple passages occurred. John Barleycorn There are no purple passages in machine toil. John Barleycorn It was a purple passage, just as Victor's wrecking of the tea-house in the Bonin Islands and my being looted by the runaway apprentices were purple passages. John Barleycorn But if the spending of one hundred and eighty dollars in twelve hours isn't a purple passage, then I'd like to know what is. John Barleycorn |
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