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Anne found Captain Benwick again drawing near her. Lord Byron's "dark blue seas" could not fail of being brought forward by their present view, and she gladly gave him all her attention as long as attention was possible. It was soon drawn, perforce another way.
Miss Suu Kyi, inspiring figure though she is, is an untested leader who has perforce been woefully out of touch with events.
For all the humble charm of Pope Francis, the Vatican's relations with China will be hard to fix. The forces keeping them apart are still potent. But so are those pushing them together http://econ.st/1s9gF0k
Of the great composers of the distant past, the surest comparison is with Joseph Haydn, whose long career, classical bent, and indefatigable humour and inventiveness Carter shared. His early career was set in motion by Ives, but it was only in the years following the second world war that Carter found his real voice. With his First String Quartet, completed in 1951, he achieved a remarkable balance between lightness of touch and unprecedented complexity, a potent cocktail that remained his stylistic hallmark.
The trouble, it seems to me, is that translation is perceived as a function, not an agency. It's not fully personalised and accredited work. No one sees it. You're an ambulance driver, not a surgeon. If not me, then someone else. If not someone else, then me. When people buy a book, they want to read the author, not a centaur or a Chapman brothers figure - the work, and not the product of something I once described as "the strange bi-authorship of translation". If the book was written in a different language, then there will, perforce, have to have been a translator involved in it, but the reader prefers to remain unaware of that. It may even be disagreeable to be informed or reminded of the fact. Even otherwise bookish people seem never to know who translated the book they are reading. Efforts by publishers to promote something as a "new translation", I am convinced, do as much harm as good. There's something as unnatural and infrequent about those as there is about a comet; people quite naturally take fright.
And the reason is, that my secretary cannot transcribe Sweet, having been perforce taught in the schools of Pitman. Therefore, Sweet railed at Pitman as vainly as Thersites railed at Ajax: his raillery, however it may have eased his soul, gave no popular vogue to Current Shorthand. 3
Pygmalion
Woodall conscientiously researched his subject. Hampered by the lack of access to some of Borges' work (controlled by collectors, as well as Borges' widow and sole heir) he nevertheless manages to chronicle the life of the great author well. Borges' literary creations are also tied in, though less emphatically than in most studies of Borges (which perforce concentrate on the works rather than the man).
An eager traveler and indefatigable walker, ...
By the age of twenty-four, Dickens had already been working for nine
years. He had applied himself to every task with vigor, and through a
mixture of indefatigable endeavor, talent, imagination, charm, and
focus, he had succeeded at nearly everything he tried.
Gay's wide-ranging examples demonstrate how well many bourgeois patrons kept abreast of shifting currents in the arts down through ''modernism'' in the opening decades of the 20th century. Gay scoops up a marvelous early quotation from Gertrude Stein, an indefatigable collector of Picasso and other Cubists: ''I am strong to declare even here in the heart of individualistic America that a material middle class with its straightened bond of family is the one thing always healthy, human, vital and from which has always sprung the best the world can know.'' The central argument against typecasting the bourgeoisie emerges strongly from this last volume. Business acumen and great wealth are perfectly compatible with artistic discrimination and generosity toward art and artists.
indefatigable
- [ìndifǽtigəbl]
[形]((形式))〈人・性質が〉疲れを知らない, 根気強い, 不撓(ふとう)不屈の.
adjective
Derivatives
adjective
Origin:
early 17th century: from French, or from Latin indefatigabilis, from in- 'not' + de- 'away, completely' + fatigare 'wear out'potent1
Line breaks: po¦tent
Pronunciation: /ˈpəʊt(ə)nt/
Definition of potent in:
- potent
- [形]1 勢力のある, 有力な；力強い；強い影響力がある.2 〈議論・理由などが〉説得力がある.3 〈薬などが〉強力な, （効果において）よくきく((in ...))；（病気などに）効能のある(...
- potentate
- [名]((文・軽蔑))大実力者, 権勢家, 有力者；主権者, 君主, 支配者.
potentate[po・ten・tate] 発音記号[póutntèit]
perforce
ADVERB
formal
Origin
Middle English: from Old French par force 'by force'.
Middle English: from Old French par force 'by force'.
perforce[per・force] 発音記号[pərfɔ'ːrs]
adv.
By necessity; by force of circumstance.
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