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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
«Look at growth, look at how much time people spend on the Net and look at the variety of things that they are doing. It's all really good, so I am actually encouraged by the fundamentals that underlie usage growth on the Net.»
Author: Meg Whitman
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Growth,
Internet
| Keywords:
encouraged, fundamentals, net, The Net, underlie, underlies, usage, variety
«English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education -- sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.»
«Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a lesbian.»
Author: Fran Lebowitz
(Humorist, Writer)
| Keywords:
archaic, boys, conclusion, happen upon, jump, ladies, Lesbian, lesbians, put out, The Conclusion, tramp, tramped, tramps, usage
«He had a sensation of anxiety and shame, a sensitivity acute beyond usefulness, as if the nervous system, flayed of its old hide of social usage, must record every touch of pain.»
Author: John Updike
| Keywords:
acute, flay, flayed, flays, sensation, sensitivity, social system, social systems, touch system, usage, usefulness
«I think that cars today are almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals: I mean the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consumed in image if not in usage by a whole population which appropriates t»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
appropriates, cars, cathedrals, conceived, consumed, era, Gothic, population, usage
«Those who advocate common usage in philosophy sometimes speak in a manner that suggests the mystique of the `common man'.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
advocate, common usage, mystique, suggests, usage
«Ah, this is obviously some strange usage of the word 'safe' that I wasn't previously aware of»
«The claims of no people, according to established policy and usage, are respected by any nation, until they are presented in a national capacity.»
Author: Martin Luther
(Priest, Scholar)
| Keywords:
according, claims, established, national, No Policy, our policy, policy, presented, respected, this policy, usage
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