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was and emotional
That she was affected by his protestations seems obvious, but since she was evidently a sensible young woman -- as well as an outgoing and sympathetic type -- it would seem that for her the word friendship had a far less intense emotional significance than that which Thompson gave it.
Like all Russians he was an emotional man, and in him the emotions warred.
In 1945, probably almost every American not only knew who Sam Spade was, but had some kind of emotional feeling about him.
A previously extinguished conditioned reaction was restored in monkey A and was associated with typical signs of emotional excitement including sympathetic discharges.
There was too little occasion beforehand for resistance, the brave strong delights of emotional clash and meeting.
As the political situation threatened and eventually overwhelmed Austria, which was repeatedly crushed by French political forces, Salieri's first and most important biographer Mosel described the emotional effect that this political, social, and cultural upheaval had on the composer.
Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.
The Bauhaus was founded at a time when the German zeitgeist had turned from emotional Expressionism to the matter-of-fact New Objectivity.
What made the National League " major " was its dominant position in the major cities, particularly New York City, the edgy, emotional nerve center of baseball.
The popularity and success of the Baroque style was encouraged by the Roman Catholic Church, which had decided at the time of the Council of Trent, in response to the Protestant Reformation, that the arts should communicate religious themes in direct and emotional involvement.
This was the occasion of the longest and most emotional of Bernard's letters.
The Connor family continued to dominate storylines in 2008, with Michelle learning that Ryan was not her biological son, having been accidentally swapped at birth, and her emotional struggle to accept her biological son Alex Neeson.
Although it has a unified theme in its emotional content, the writers ( Brian Wilson and Tony Asher ) have said repeatedly that it was not necessarily intended to be a narrative.
This led to an emotional celebration on the infield with driver Michael Waltrip ( who finished in second place ), whose victory at the Daytona 500 was vastly overshadowed.
This study found that sleep improved memory retention of emotional text only during late sleep phase, which was primarily REM.
The idea that personality disorders did not involve emotional distress was discarded.
Hunt ( 1958 ) argues the myth was an irrational belief which commanded the force of irrefutable emotional convictions for millions of Germans.
What was often sought was an emotional response to the information, the shock, the fear, and the confrontation.
However, the Britannica has also staunchly defended a scientific approach to emotional topics, as it did with William Robertson Smith's articles on religion in the 9th edition, particularly his article stating that the Bible was not historically accurate ( 1875 ).
Though designed strictly as a mechanism to support " natural language conversation " with a computer, ELIZA's DOCTOR script was found to be surprisingly successful in eliciting emotional responses from users who, in the course of interacting with the program, began to ascribe understanding and motivation to the program's output.
Blyton adored her father and was devastated after he left the family to live with another woman ; this has often been cited as the reason behind her emotional immaturity.

was and lonely
Their work was lonely.
Ann Catt was a lonely, devoted soul, never married, conducting a spotless home and devoted to her church, but a perpetual dissenter and born critic.
The thought of this lonely woman sitting at her window touched him, although he was even more touched by her plumpness.
He said he was the lonely type and working in a cellar you saw funny things coming out of the cracks in the wall if they wasn't nobody with you.
All Charlie could look forward to was a yellow pill at noon, a salami sandwich for lunch, and a lonely old age -- if he lived that long.
`` I was lonely always ''.
Even to herself Helva sounded a little self-pitying but the truth was she was lonely, sitting on the darkened field.
The Tramp was to become a lonely prospector fighting adversity and looking for love amid the historic event.
Her second stay was not happy ; she was lonely, homesick and deeply attached to Constantin Heger.
According to Barks ' description of his childhood, he was a rather lonely child.
Never was there such a dame school as ours, so firm and kind and smelling of galoshes, with the sweet and fumbled music of the piano lessons drifting down from upstairs to the lonely schoolroom, where only the sometimes tearful wicked sat over undone sums, or to repent a little crime — the pulling of a girl's hair during geography, the sly shin kick under the table during English literature.
Orwell was very lonely after Eileen's death, and desperate for a wife, both as companion for himself and as mother for Richard.
At this time, he was severely ill ; it was wartime or the austerity period after it ; during the war his wife suffered from depression ; and after her death he was lonely and unhappy.
From the lonely life he led, and still more from the riddling nature of his philosophy and his contempt for humankind in general, he was called " The Obscure " and the " Weeping Philosopher ".
Lewis, meanwhile, was busier than ever with his production duties and often worked late hours, leaving Whale lonely and bored.
It was a rare book, unlikely to be at a " lonely farmhouse ", nor would an individual carry it on a journey ; the folio was heavy and almost 1000 pages in size.
The Martian is a favorite character of classical science fiction ; he was frequently found away from his home planet, often invading Earth, but sometimes simply a lonely character representing alienness from his surroundings.
A lifelong bachelor and teetotaler ( although Bennett was known by select associates to occasionally drink alcohol when the press was not around to observe this ), he led a rather lonely life in a hotel and later, in a boarding house.

was and boy
It was a fair fight, the boy provoked it -- Big Charlie told me so.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
Now under me I could see him for what he really was, a boy dressed up in streaks of paint.
Even the knowledge that she was losing another boy, as a mother always does when a marriage is made, did not prevent her from having the first carefree, dreamless sleep that she had known since they dropped down the canyon and into Bear Valley, way, way back there when they were crossing those other mountains.
Often, I heard my uncles and cousins speak of it when I was a small boy growing up in Rabaul.
Now it did not occur to him even to wonder whether it was wise for Robinson to dive again: Rob was his boy, the kid he had rescued from the streets, the object of his pride.
As a boy in a local school he was shy and solitary, absorbed in his fondness for nature and his visions of Sweden's ancient glory.
But on one occasion when I encountered a similar fantasy in a little boy who was my patient I began to understand the uncanny effects of this story.
Neither was Henrietta hoydenish like Jo, who frankly wished she were a boy and had deliberately shortened her name, which, like Henrietta's, was the feminine form of a boy's name.
During the summers, while he was still in school, Mercer worked for his father's firm as a messenger boy.
A little boy came to give the President his personal condolences, and the President gave word that any little boy who wanted to see him was to be shown in.
But one day came the voice of a man I had known when he was a boy, and I later remembered that this boy, thirty years before, had struck me as coming to no good.
There had been something sinister about him that warned me against him, -- I had never felt that way about any other boy, -- but when he uttered his name on the telephone I had forgotten this and I was glad to do what he asked of me.
Never hearing from him again, I remembered the little boy of whom I had had such doubts when he was ten years old.
Finally we got them out of the house, after the boy had run away four times looking for other Nazis, threatening to murder village schoolchildren and bragging that he was to be the next Fuhrer.
As he pulled the fringed sides up and made himself into a cocoon, Mr. Podger saw that thin, attractive, freckled little face again, and hoped that the boy, too, was lying in a cool, fringed-wrapped quiet.
Mrs. Dwyer's husband, M. Joseph Dwyer, was taking a 10-year-old boy from Union County on the tour of the Capitol during the final weeks of the last session.
He was a wiry, inscrutable, silent country boy from the red clay of rural Alabama, and he spoke with the broad drawl that others normally make fun of.
Before the fight was over, the Harlem boy had a concussion and Trig was cut up badly.

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