They tried to mollify him by professing great and unabated respect for him, and by averring that it was only the lack of opportunity that had kept them away.
Meaning in art, he averred, comes not primarily from predetermined subject matter, but from the incalculable warmth of the unconscious as it speaks in forms, colors, and their relationships.
The answer of the defendants contains a specific denial of the several allegations of the complaint, and as to that it avers their want of information and demands proof.