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Letter "D" » delicacy
«Such is the delicacy of man alone, that no object is produced to his liking. He finds that in everything there is need for improvement.... The whole industry of human life is employed not in procuring the supply of our three humble necessities, food, clothes and lodging, but in procuring the conveniences of it according to the nicety and delicacy of our tastes.»
Author: Adam Smith
| Keywords:
conveniences, delicacies, delicacy, employed, food supply, improvement, liking, lodges, lodging, lodgings, necessities, niceties, nicety, procured, procures, procuring, supply, tastes
«It takes more time and effort and delicacy to learn the silence of a people than to learn its sounds. Some people have a special gift for this. Perhaps this explains why some missionaries, notwithstanding their efforts, never come to speak properly, to communicate delicately through silences. Although they ''speak with the accent of natives'' they remain forever thousands of miles away. The learning of the grammar of silence is an art much more difficult to learn than the grammar of sounds.»
Author: Ivan Illich
| Keywords:
accent, accents, delicacies, delicacy, delicately, explains, grammar, missionaries, Natives, notwithstanding, properly speaking, silences, The Silence
«[He was] a lawyer who usually operated with the delicacy of a Lexington Avenue express train.»
Author: Joyce Wadler
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
avenue, avenues, delicacies, delicacy, express train, Lexington, operated
«It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?»
Author: Jane Austen
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
attentions, delicacies, delicacy, flattering, impulse, pleasing, previous, proceed
«There is a close relationship between flowers and convicts. The fragility and delicacy of the former are of the same nature as the brutal insensitivity of the latter.»
Author: Jean Genet
(Dramatist, Novelist)
| Keywords:
brutal, convicts, delicacy, fragility, insensitivity
«HOG, n. A bird remarkable for the catholicity of its appetite and serving to illustrate that of ours. Among the Mahometans and Jews, the hog is not in favor as an article of diet, but is respected for the delicacy and the melody of its voice. It is chiefly as a songster that the fowl is esteemed; the cage of him in full chorus has been known to draw tears from two persons at once. The scientific name of this dicky-bird is _Porcus Rockefelleri_. Mr. Rockefeller did not discover the hog, but it is considered his by right of resemblance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
appetite, article, cage, catholicity, chiefly, delicacies, delicacy, dicky, esteemed, fowl, hog, illustrate, illustrated, illustrating, in chorus, in full, Jews, melody, remarkable, resemblance, respected, Rockefeller, scientific name, serving, songster, The Cage, the Chorus
«We throw the whole drudgery of creation one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
delicacies, delicacy, imply, initiate, initiated, initiating
«Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
| Keywords:
accustomed, adorns, boisterous, delicacy, fragile, inexpressible, phenomena, suggestive, suggestive of
«Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives and obscene stories»
Author: Mark Twain
(Humorist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
belongings, delicacies, delicacy, family circle, narratives, obscene, robs
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