What this is cannot easily be defined; it consists, perhaps, in the beauty of the atmosphere which Tennyson contrives to cast around his work, moulding it in the blue mystery of twilight, in the opaline haze of sunset: this atmosphere, suffused over his poetry with inestimable skill and with a tact very rarely at fault, produces an almost unfailing illusion or mirage of loveliness, so that, even where (as must sometimes be the case with every poet) the thought and the imagery have little value in themselves, the fictive aura of beauty broods over the otherwise undistinguished verse.   anvd [Please select]

His face, too, though undistinguished, looked honest, kind, and pathetic, but with a pathos that was unaffected and quite unconscious.   anvd [Please select]

Why was a man of so undistinguished a record as he first chosen as a candidate for President and then elected President.   anvd [Please select]

Until he was forty he did indeed live a particularly undistinguished life in Mecca, as the husband of a prosperous wife.   anvd [Please select]

One of them whistled shrilly a few bars of that then popular but undistinguished tune, "Pop goes the weazel."   anvd [Please select]

And now Sappho's brother, who had till then remained undistinguished among the many strangers at Naukratis, became a noted man through Rhodopis.   anvd [Please select]

He could have borne to live an undistinguished life, but not to be forgotten in the grave.   anvd [Please select]

He wore a blue flannel shirt and high boots like Clarence's, yet somehow he made Clarence look a little rough and undistinguished.   anvd [Please select]

‘Practically banished to a very undistinguished office--for his position,’ I remarked.   anvd [Please select]

My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families--second families perhaps I should say.   anvd [Please select]

His mediocre stature, thinning locks, and undistinguished features created an impression which was confirmed by his slovenly attire and ungrammatical speech, which seemed "shackled by a preternatural secretion of saliva."   anvd [Please select]