"A combination of diffidence and enthusiasm allows him to write of our past... with energy and clarity".
A combination of diffidence and enthusiasm allows him to write of our past -- which looks like our future -- with energy and clarity.
It is true that his monograph on Eakins was undertaken without initial enthusiasm (he wanted to write on de Kooning) and he jittered about leaving the Tibor de Nagy gallery for Hirschl & Adler, which specialized in Americana, but his affinity with a painter like Hopper, whose scale and impersonality equally betokens "intimism with American spaciousness," is overlooked at peril.
Encouraged by their enthusiasm, Peter decides to write his own erotic novel, which is received well by all who read it.The novels he authors are converted into audio books, as read by Betty White and published by Peter's father-in-law, Carter Pewterschmidt.
Eugene O'Neill left us over fifty plays when he died in a hotel room in Boston in 1953, but he left us a monumental life, too, one that scholars and biographers mine with the kind of enthusiasm and dread O'Neill employed to write his last, great plays.
Joyce's enthusiasm had reignited his will to write, and he would soon embark on the novel that would bring him literary recognition.
Hence I try to write with some enthusiasm about awards in which I personally have little interest.
He was indulged because he was good, one of Harry Evans's inspired mavericks, and encouraged, as we all were, to write to our enthusiasms.
"In an idealized world, we would all be able to do what our English teachers told us to do, which is to write beautiful prose where enthusiasm is conveyed by word choice and grammar".
