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Letter "D" » drawback
«Any change, even a change for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.»
Author: Arnold Bennett
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Change
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accompanied, accompanying, discomforting, discomforts, drawback, drawbacks
«Poetry has the virtue of being able to say twice as much as prose in half the time, and the drawback, if you do not give it your full attention, of seeming to say half as much in twice the time.»
«Every clique is a refuge for incompetence. It fosters corruption and disloyalty, it begets cowardice, and consequently is a burden upon and a drawback to the progress of the country. Its instincts and actions are those of the pack.»
Author: Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
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«Journalism over here is not only an obsession but a drawback that cannot be overrated. Politicians are frightened of the press, and in the same way as bull-fighting has a brutalizing effect upon Spain (of which she is unconscious), headlines of murder, rape, and rubbish, excite and demoralize the American public.»
Author: Margot Asquith
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brutalize, brutalized, brutalizes, brutalizing, bull, Bull Fighting, demoralize, demoralizing, drawback, drawbacks, headlines, obsession, overrated, over here, public press, rape, rubbish
«One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it.»
«One realises after a while, that indiscriminate opposition with the opposite sex has its drawbacks.[Richards]»
«France had neither winter nor summer nor morals - apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country»
«Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I've experienced them both.»
Author: Marilyn Monroe
(Actress)
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Fame
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compensations, drawback, drawbacks, fickle
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