Old portraits and any kind of inartistic picture or print were brought forth to gratify the eye unaccustomed to such monotony. From Wordnik.com. [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference
Evidently to put forth truths so baldly was inartistic. From Wordnik.com. [Suzanna Stirs the Fire] Reference
Such an inartistic size-up impresses a prospect disagreeably. From Wordnik.com. [Certain Success] Reference
Usually they are irrelevant and inartistic asides by the author. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
Mr. JOHN FOSTER'S story into a most inartistic anti-climax over such. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, January 17, 1917] Reference
It is always excusable to retain an ugly, inartistic thing -- if it is. From Wordnik.com. [The Art of Interior Decoration] Reference
Well-made replicas have a value that is overlooked only by the inartistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Treasury of Ancient Egypt Miscellaneous Chapters on Ancient Egyptian History and Archaeology] Reference
For all their "Kultur" Germans are gross, and to the last degree inartistic. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
She was girlish, thoughtless, imprudent, inartistic, and very unlike a De Courcy. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Thorne] Reference
The use of birds and their plumage is as inartistic as it is cruel and barbarous. From Wordnik.com. [Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [May, 1897] A Monthly Serial designed to Promote Knowledge of Bird-Life] Reference
Unfortunately, unprogressive builders are still adhering to this inartistic plan. From Wordnik.com. [The Recent Revolution in Organ Building Being an Account of Modern Developments] Reference
Yet in spite of these inartistic surroundings it has lost none of its tender charm. From Wordnik.com. [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference
Every step brought him nearer to London, farther from his own sober inartistic life. From Wordnik.com. [Dubliners] Reference
The roan cow disliked music and kicked over the milk-pail with inartistic persistence. From Wordnik.com. [Kenny] Reference
A crude and inartistic symbolism is revolting to a spiritually-unfolded consciousness. From Wordnik.com. [Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul] Reference
It is amazing and inartistic, however, that after all her awkwardness she should fail. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 107, September, 1866] Reference
Sister Marigold stared at him so long that he wondered nervously if he had been inartistic. From Wordnik.com. [The Nursing Home Murder]
Extravagance is inartistic -- so for that reason I could wish for moderation in stage dressing. From Wordnik.com. [Stage Confidences] Reference
What on earth had made his inartistic cousin buy a thing like that and put it up to face his bed?. From Wordnik.com. [The White Monkey] Reference
Each window reached to the floor, and an inartistic iron grille removed all danger of falling out. From Wordnik.com. [In the Tail of the Peacock] Reference
The first two of these methods are Artistic and legitimate: the others are inartistic and misleading. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 829, November 21, 1891] Reference
The workers in silver, copper, and brass are many, but their productions are usually rough and inartistic. From Wordnik.com. [A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil] Reference
The only legitimate purpose of the short story is to amuse, and didacticism in literature is always inartistic. From Wordnik.com. [Short Story Writing A Practical Treatise on the Art of The Short Story] Reference
The gateway to the courtyard was repaired and modernised by Bishop Barrington, with the existing inartistic result. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Durham A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espiscopal See] Reference
It would be easy to show that survivals out of this stage of inartistic lyric poetry linger in the early epic poetry of. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
All this hideous inartistic modernity contrasted sadly with the massive beauty and vast strength of our castellated home. From Wordnik.com. [Through Finland in Carts] Reference
Mrs. Howe in this; for while we see marks of her own mind constantly, there is no inartistic protrusion of her personality. From Wordnik.com. [Elizabeth Fry] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Diamond Coterie] Reference
Louis XVI: but he would say that it was art still, and the period a not wholly inartistic period; and even of the dull times of the. From Wordnik.com. [The American Architect and Building News, Vol. 27, Jan-Mar, 1890] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 33, July, 1860] Reference
Lithography as a means of artistic reproduction has suffered much in public esteem by being put to all manner of inartistic trade uses. From Wordnik.com. [The Practice and Science of Drawing] Reference
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. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
It casts a shadow deepening the "old marks" and instead of being a frame to set off, it seems to cut off, the face at an inartistic angle. From Wordnik.com. [What Dress Makes of Us] Reference
The other was a coloured picture representing a "plate" -- a satire on the poor and inartistic "coloured plates" then being issued by S. C. From Wordnik.com. [The History of "Punch"] Reference
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