{"id":40270,"date":"2024-05-17T08:35:24","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=40270"},"modified":"2024-05-17T08:35:24","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T13:35:24","slug":"word-of-the-day-961","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2024\/05\/17\/word-of-the-day-961\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

Uxorious<\/em>:<\/p>\n

: excessively fond of or submissive to a wife [Merriam-Webster<\/strong><\/a>]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My goodness. Noted in “King Charles III\u2019s blood-red portrait is a stylistic mess<\/em><\/a>,” Sebastian Smee, WaPo<\/strong><\/em>:<\/p>\n

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Yeo\u2019s royal portrait, unveiled Tuesday at Buckingham Palace, drew an immediate and polarized response online, with comparisons to\u00a0video game bosses<\/a>,\u00a0hell<\/a>\u00a0and \u201cGhostbusters 2<\/a>.\u201d To my mind, the painting is like the last will and testament of an uxorious libertine. It shouldn\u2019t make sense \u2014 and guess what? It doesn\u2019t. So many ideas \u2014 or really, so many decisions avoided \u2014 in the one painting! Do we want pretty or gritty? Abstract or figurative? Symbolism (note the butterfly, standing for Charles\u2019s transformation from prince into king) or realism? Illusion of spatial depth or a flat, all-over effect? Dignified royal reserve or palpable collapse into pathos? It\u2019s all there. A heap of oxymorons, a pileup of platitudes.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

But tell us how you really feel!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Uxorious: : excessively fond of or submissive to a wife [Merriam-Webster] My goodness. Noted in “King Charles III\u2019s blood-red portrait is a stylistic mess,” Sebastian Smee, WaPo: Yeo\u2019s royal portrait, unveiled Tuesday at Buckingham Palace, drew an immediate and polarized response online, with comparisons to\u00a0video game bosses,\u00a0hell\u00a0and \u201cGhostbusters 2.\u201d To \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40271,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40270\/revisions\/40271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}