an S-shaped hook

By God's teeth, I will not grant them liberties which will make me a slave!

But Fra Filippo was too fine a psychologist not to understand that in a similar theme the manifestation of grief was absolutely essential; he therefore had recourse to an ingenious stratagem, introducing in his composition the two female mourners, in whose features he sought to condense, so to say, all the emotion and dramaticity which he was debarred from expressing through the medium of his portrait figures.

Red and white light together cast double shadows of different lengths and colors, weirdened the whole landscape, sparse yellow shrubs, cracked gray soil above and raw-shaped ocherous crags and bluffs tumbling into the cleft beneath.