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«In modern usage a cuckold is the husband of an unfaithful wife - a far nastier and more humiliating state, apparently than being the wife of a philanderer, for which in fact no word exists»
Author: Anne Fausto
| Keywords:
apparently, cuckold, cuckolded, cuckolds, nastier, philanderer, usage
«Sympathy is something that shouldn't be bestowed upon the Yankees. Apparently it angers them.»
Author: Bob Feller
(Baseball Player)
| About:
Sympathy
| Keywords:
angers, apparently, bestowed, The Yankees
«It's not that I don't want to be a beauty, that I don't yearn to be dripping with glamour. It's just that I can't see how any woman can find time to do to herself all the things that must apparently be done to make herself beautiful and, having once done them, how anyone without the strength of mind of a foreign missionary can keep up such a regime.»
Author: Cornelia Otis Skinner
| Keywords:
apparently, drip, dripped, dripping, missionary, regime, yearn
«One pits his wits against apparently inscrutable nature, wooing her with ardor [but] nature is blind justice who cannot recognize personal identity.»
Author: Dr. Charles Brenton Huggins
| About:
Nature
| Keywords:
apparently, ardor, inscrutable, personal identity, pits, wits, wooing
«Naturally we would prefer seven epiphanies a day and an earth not so apparently devoid of angels.»
Author: Jim Harrison
| Keywords:
angels, apparently, devoid, devoid of, epiphanies, epiphany, naturally, prefer, seven
«Sincere friendship towards God, in all who believe him to be properly an intelligent, willing being, does most apparently, directly, and strongly incline to prayer; and it no less disposes the heart strongly to desire to have our infinitely glorious and gracious Friend expressing his mind to us by his word, that we may know it.»
Author: Jonathan Edwards
| About:
Belief,
Friendship,
God,
Prayer
| Keywords:
apparently, disposes, incline, infinitely, strongly
«Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.»
Author: James Joyce
| Keywords:
actualities, actuality, apparently, artifice, artifices, fantastic, in a sense, revolt
«It is impossible to think of Howard Hughes without seeing the apparently bottomless gulf between what we say we want and what we do want, between what we officially admire and secretly desire, between, in the largest sense, the people we marry and the people we love. In a nation which increasingly appears to prize social virtues, Howard Hughes remains not merely antisocial but grandly, brilliantly, surpassingly, asocial. He is the last private man, the dream we no longer admit.»
Author: Joan Didion
(Journalist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
antisocial, apparently, asocial, bottomless, brilliantly, grandly, gulf, gulfs, Gulf of, Howard, Howard Hughes, Hughes, increasingly, largest, officially, prize, secretly, surpassingly
«TEDIUM, n. Ennui, the state or condition of one that is bored. Many fanciful derivations of the word have been affirmed, but so high an authority as Father Jape says that it comes from a very obvious source --the first words of the ancient Latin hymn _Te Deum Laudamus_. In this apparently natural derivation there is something that saddens.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Affirmed, apparently, derivation, derivations, ennui, fanciful, hymn, jape, Latin, natural state, saddened, saddening, saddens, tedium
«Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy.»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
apparently, enemy, force, might, overwhelm, overwhelming, overwhelms, The Enemy, yield, yield up
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