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Letter "U" » unhappily
«I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.»
Author: Alexander Haig
(General)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
presided, presiding, removal, unhappily, vice president
«Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it.»
Author: Le Corbusier
(Architect)
| Keywords:
day by day, determining, discern, epoch, epochs, unhappily
«Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it»
Author: Charles Lamb
(Critic, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Irony
| Keywords:
blessed with, clap, clapping, extinguisher, irony, unhappily, vein
«No country or people who are slaves to dogma and the dogmatic mentality can progress, and unhappily our country and people have become extraordinarily dogmatic and little-minded»
Author: Jawaharlal Nehru
(Prime Minister)
| Keywords:
dogma, dogmatic, extraordinarily, mentality, minded, unhappily
«The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.»
«EUCHARIST, n. A sacred feast of the religious sect of Theophagi. A dispute once unhappily arose among the members of this sect as to what it was that they ate. In this controversy some five hundred thousand have already been slain, and the question is still unsettled.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Ate, controversy, dispute, Eucharist, hundred thousand, religious sect, sect, unhappily, unsettle, unsettled, unsettling
«QUIXOTIC, adj. Absurdly chivalric, like Don Quixote. An insight into the beauty and excellence of this incomparable adjective is unhappily denied to him who has the misfortune to know that the gentleman's name is pronounced Ke-ho-tay.When ignorance from out of our lives can banish Philology, 'tis folly to know Spanish. --Juan Smith»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
absurdly, adj, adjective, adjectives, banish, chivalric, Don, Don Juan, Don Quixote, incomparable, insight, Juan, K.E., Ke, philology, pronounced, quixotic, smith, smiths, Spanish, Tay, unhappily
«My verses, I cannot say poems. I was following in the exquisite footsteps of Miss Millay, unhappily in my own horrible sneakers.»
«The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
and the, bad, be all and end all, ended, end on, fiction, fictions, good, good for you, happily, How to be Good, in a bad way, means, that, that is, unhappily, WHAT
«All men, if they work not as in the great taskmaster's eye, will work wrong, and work unhappily for themselves and for you.»
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