Hmm... The author could use lots of words! Always a reliable combination that more often than not provides positive context is "for the good of the people" Without any context though, I don't really know what kind of word your looking for.
The Hundred Years War inflicted untold misery on France. Farmlands were laid waste, the population was decimated by war, famine, and the Black Death (see plague ), and marauders terrorized the countryside.
Well Rembrandt built up colors and textures in his paintings through the use of layering (also sometimes used multi-layers) and also some of the paintings were thick, he used a strategy called "IMPASTO"
