 | 1923 - 1012 pages
...who shows that the cocksure mediocrity of Oopher Prairie, and the enlargement thereof call«! Zenith, is no longer merely provincial, ' no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance.' It is a force which aims at destroying all the amenities of the civilizations... | |
 | Sinclair Lewis - 1921 - 474 pages
...also serve the world by selling shoes and I wonder if we oughtn't to have family-prayers? " , But/a village in a country which is taking pains to become...merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to dominate the earth, to drain the hills and sea of... | |
 | John Lamberton Harper - 1996 - 404 pages
...contain Main Street only time would tell. Lewis had his doubts: A village in a country which is making pains to become altogether standardized and pure,...as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer purely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking... | |
 | Steven Biel - 2005 - 232 pages
...imperialist provincialism. The novel's narrator, speaking directly through Carol at this point, argues that "a village in a country which is taking pains to become...merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to dominate the earth. . . ." Reversing the trope of... | |
 | 1926 - 700 pages
...eventually conquer the world, and this would be a tragedy as great to Main Street as to the world. But a village in a country which is taking pains to become...merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leafshadowed ignorance. It is a force seeking to dominate the earth, to drain the hills and sea of... | |
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But a village in a country which is taking pains to become altogether standardized and pure, which aspires to succeed Victorian England as the chief mediocrity of the world, is no longer merely provincial, no longer downy and restful in its leaf-shadowed... 