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«You say that love is nonsense....I tell you it is no such thing. For weeks and months it is a steady physical pain, an ache about the heart, never leaving one, by night or by day; a long strain on one's nerves like toothache or rheumatism, not intolerable at any one instant, but exhausting by its steady drain on the strength.»
Author: Henry Brooks Adams
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ache, drain, exhausting, intolerable, nerves, Physical pain, Physical strength, physical thing, rheumatism, steady, strain, toothache, toothaches, weeks
«Today the discredit of words is very great. Most of the time the media transmit lies. In the face of an intolerable world, words appear to change very little. State power has become congenitally deaf, which is why /but the editorialists forget it /terrorists are reduced to bombs and hijacking.»
Author: John Berger
(Painter)
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bombs, deaf, discredit, discredited, discrediting, discredits, hijack, hijacked, hijacking, intolerable, reduced, terrorists, time bomb, transmit
«Those wearing tolerance for a label call other views intolerable»
«The want of a thing is perplexing enough, but the possession of it is intolerable»
«You will, I am sure, agree with me that... if page 534 only finds us in the second chapter, the length of the first one must have been really intolerable.»
«UN-AMERICAN, adj. Wicked, intolerable, heathenish.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adj, heathenish, intolerable, un-American
«The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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addicted, Brahms, dressing, Handel, intolerable, prolonged, sentimental, tiresomely, Voluptuaries, voluptuary
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