HoM ART/PERFORMANCE Flashcards
colour crowd
1.1 Lily has a “vivid head, relieved against the dull tints of the crowd” and a purity of tint
scenery at Bellomont
“moments when such scenes delighted Lily, when they gratified her sense of external beauty and her craving for the external finish of life” other times give a “sharper edge to the meagerness of her own opportunities”
being seen
"”People can’t marry you if they don’t see you”
Lily’s beauty transaction
“contemplation of Lily’s beauty” by her mother as “the last asset in their fortunes”
Lily church
the sight of her in a grey gown of devotional cut, with her famous lashes drooped above a prayer-book, would put the finishing touch to Mr. Gryce’s subjugation
jewels at Jack Stepney’s marriage to Miss Van Osburgh
all these precious tints enhanced and deepened by the varied art of their setting.
self display transaction
the combination of a handsome girl and a romantic scene struck her as too good to be wasted.
Rosedale jewish
Rosedale, with that mixture of artistic sensibility and business astuteness which characterizes his race,
Lily artistic
that artistic sensibility which made her feel herself their superior; in which every tint and line should combine to enhance her beauty
Lily tableau
She had shown her artistic intelligence
social tasks
other social drudgery to perform.
tableau
The performance over, Selden’s first impulse was to seek Miss Bart.
monte carlo
Meanwhile the last moments of the performance seemed to gain an added brightness from the hovering threat of the curtain.
Gormers’ carrie fisher
so they’ve started a sort of continuous performance of their own, a kind of social Coney Island,
