Word of the Week: "Stentorian"

As an aide memoire to myself I have decided, whenever possible, to illustrate a word a week whose meaning was either hazy or unknown to me before.

This week's word is stentorian,
here applied to the late great (grand) Dame Edith Evans
as Lady Bracknell in Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest"

Stentorian a. Of or relating to a person with a powerful voice
[from Gk. Stentor, herald in Trojan War
(Homer, Iliad v.785)]

It can be very hard to capture a likeness well
I certainly didn't want to create a 'caricature' as such
(shudders at thought of 'pavement artists' around leicester square!)
but I do think I've caught something of the old trout

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Word of the Week: "Picaresque"

picaresque (-k) a. ( Of a style of fiction) dealing with adventures of rogues
{F. f Sp. picaresco (picaro = rogue; + -ESQUE)}



Here's a Gallery of coffee-stain Rogues,
based loosely on characters from Jacques Becker's great 1952 film "Casque d'or"
starring Simone Signoret and Serge Reggiani

I've made up a few names for them
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