Day 1,768: browbeating

He deserves credit for forcing through stalled reforms, personally overseeing key decisions and browbeating laggards and opponents in the bureaucracy. 

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Artwork of the day 
Forced to Swim
Karl Bryullov
Original Title: Насильное купание
Date: 1851 - 1852
Style: Romanticism
Genre: genre painting
Media: sepia, wash
Location: Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow, Russia
Dimensions: 20 x 16.5 cm

Word of the day 
browbeating: to try to force someone to do something by threatening them or persuading them forcefullyand unfairly:

Quote of the day
“I realized it for the first time in my life: there is nothing but mystery in the world, how it hides behind the fabric of our poor, browbeat days, shining brightly, and we don't even know it.”

― Sue Monk Kidd, The Secret Life of Bees