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In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??
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Actually, you could wish for some passion, now and then, but when you look around the world and see the little volcanos of current history which partisan social passions have wrought, you are glad that in these pamphlets there is at least some civilized calm.
This term derived from the Greek adjective ( ataraktos ) which means " not disturbed, not excited, without confusion, steady, calm ".
By being the " calm center " around which the kingdom turns, the king allows everything to function smoothly and avoids having to tamper with the individual parts of the whole.
However, the area in the centre of the course, where Bluebird was travelling at peak speed on her return run was calm, and not disturbed by the wash from the first run, which had not had time to be reflected back on the course.
It was written, he tells us, in bitter anguish, " out of much affliction and pressure of heart ... and with streaming eyes " ( 2 Cor 2: 4 ); yet he restrained the expression of his feelings, and wrote with a dignity and holy calm which he thought most calculated to win back his erring children.
The Southern belle was bred to conform to a subspecies of the nineteenth-century " lady "... For Scarlett, the ideal is embodied in her adored mother, the saintly Ellen, whose back is never seen to rest against the back of any chair on which she sits, whose broken spirit everywhere is mistaken for righteous calm ...
They have two blowholes on top of their head, which can create a distinctive V-shaped blow at the surface in calm wind conditions.
Lemon balm contains eugenol, which kills bacteria and has been shown to calm muscles and numb tissues.
Syria was charged by Arab League with disentangling the combatants and restoring calm from the time of the second Lebanese civil war ( which began in 1975 ) until 2005 when the Lebanese revolted against the Syrian presence and caused the withdrawal of Syrian troops with the support of the International community.
Wind conditions can give a slightly choppy and thus matte appearance to the water, with occasional calm patches appearing as dark ovals ( reflecting the mountains ) from the shore, which can appear as humps to visitors unfamiliar with the loch.
When Premier Cahill died on 22 October 1959, he was replaced by Askin's friend and parliamentary contemporary, Robert " Bob " Heffron, which tended to calm his aggression and opposition towards the government.
* The heathen Irish tied him to a mill-stone, rolled it over the edge of a cliff into a stormy sea, which immediately became calm, and the saint floated safely over the water to land upon the sandy beach of Perranzabuloe in Cornwall.
The countryside in northern Afghanistan, parts of which was under the control of Defense Minister Massoud remained calm and some reconstruction took place.
Montevideo, which was used as a supply station by the Brazilian navy, experienced a period of prosperity and relative calm during the war.
The combination of blue and yellow yields total immobility and calm, which is green.
The western coast, sheltered and calm, is home to hundreds of tiny, secluded bays which offer some of the best diving and boating in the country.
Shakespeare was either unaware of or indifferent to this, and adopted, then adapted some of their features, including the five act structure and the aforementioned train of bad decisions, culminating in an eventual ' stoic calm ' of the protagonist, in which the character virtuously accepts the consequences of their error ( s )-" Lay on, Macduff ," in " Macbeth ".
This period was quite a calm time for Palermo, which was growing into an important Roman trade centre.
However, Triton's special attribute was a twisted conch shell, on which he blew like a trumpet to calm or raise the waves.
Unfortunately, the period of relative calm was violently interrupted by the epic eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 which buried the cities of Pompeii and Herculaneum.
Trying to calm her mind, during Fersen's first visit, and later after his return on 7 June 1784, the queen occupied herself with the creation of the Hameau de la reine, a model hamlet in the garden of the Petit Trianon with a mill and 12 cottages, 9 of which are still standing.
Other sources include Sylvia Plath's 1963 novel The Bell Jar, in which the protagonist, Esther, reacts with horror to the " perpetual marble calm " of a lobotomized young woman named Valerie.
In the shipping lanes he is rescued by a Portuguese sea captain, a level-headed individual albeit full of concern for others, whose temperament at one level looks like a medium between that of the calm, rational Houyhnhnms of Houyhnhnmland and the norm of corrupt, European humanity, which Gulliver no longer distinguishes from Houyhnhnmland's wild Yahoos.
There has been much investigation of the possible sources of the Dantesque terzina, which Benedetto Croce characterised as " linked, enclosed, disciplined, vehement and yet calm ".
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He follows and manages to calm her down by telling her that mutant extinction does not mean that they would die any earlier than usually, but just that their children and grandchildren would be normal people.
A calm con anima passage follows with a melody in the violins which goes quickly to high notes.
calm and reading
Empirical studies suggest that mindfully reading and reciting the Psalms ( from scripture ) can help a person calm down and focus.
The narrator attempts to calm Roderick by reading aloud The Mad Tryst, a novel involving a knight named Ethelred who breaks into a hermit's dwelling in an attempt to escape an approaching storm, only to find a palace of gold guarded by a dragon.
These books are about six children living in a tiny, remote village in Sweden and are set in the late 1930s, a relatively calm time in Sweden although a war " starting soon " is sometimes briefly mentioned in newspapers the kids are reading.
The directors try to calm him down, but Welles insists he's giving it the right reading, to which a director responds, " For the moment.
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" Following in 1998, M. H. Abrams explained, To Autumn ' was the last work of artistic consequence that Keats completed [...] he achieved this celebratory poem, with its calm acquiescence to time, transience and mortality, at a time when he was possessed by a premonition [...] that he had himself less than two years to live ".
* In William Wordsworth's poem " It is a beauteous evening, calm and free ", Wordsworth writes about a walk on the beach with his daughter Caroline, who lived in France with her mother and whom he saw only rarely.
In the book's climax in chapter four, while he struggles to remain calm offering medical solutions to Baxter's illness, she quotes Matthew Arnold's poem Dover Beach, which calls for civilised values in the world, temporarily placating the assailant's violent mood.
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Then Meltzer's voice, quiet, calm, strong, started the Kaddish, the prayer for the dead.
Except for the odd uptown sex maniac or an overeager Greek sailor, the people watch in calm absorption.
Simultaneously, a variety of environmental supports -- a calm but not too motherly homemaker, referral for temporary economic aid, intelligent use of nursing care, accompaniment to the well-baby clinic for medical advice on the twins' feeding problem -- combined to prevent further development of predictable pathological mechanisms.
With curiosity and elan, he explored every inch of glen, beach and burn, once stranding himself for hours on a ledge high up a sheer seventy-foot cliff and waiting with calm faith to be rescued by Maxwell, who nearly lost his life in doing so.
David is described as someone renowned for his skill at playing the harp, and consequently summoned to Saul's court to calm his moods.
The more modernist works focus on imperial systems in China and employ scientific method to analyze epochs of Chinese dynasties from geographical, genealogical, and cultural artifacts, for example, from Carbon-14 dating and geographical records to correlate climates with cycles of calm and calamity in Chinese history.
In a review in the Chicago Sun-Times, Roger Ebert states: " Barrymore is the right actress for this role precisely because she approaches it with such grave calm.
El Cotillo is a small fishing village in the north-west of the Island famous for a very long beach to the south of the village and few very calm beaches to the north.
Middleton gained recognition for his courageous, calm and steady temperament during the Anglo-Cherokee War between 1760 and 1761.
Druze leader Walid Jumblatt appealed for calm, but said the car bomb was a clear message for the opposition.
Some have read dark overtones into The Radiant City: from the " astonishingly beautiful assemblage of buildings " that was Stockholm, for example, Le Corbusier saw only “ frightening chaos and saddening monotony .” He dreamed of " cleaning and purging " the city, bringing " a calm and powerful architecture "— referring to steel, plate glass, and reinforced concrete.
Following the al-Askari Mosque bombing in February 2006, imams and other Islamic leaders used mosques and Friday prayers as vehicles to call for calm and peace in the midst of widespread violence.
My peace and calm are gone, for now I will only ever be able to worry about Sasha.
The English term lullaby is thought to come from " lu, lu " or " la la " sound made by mothers or nurses to calm children, and " by by " or " bye bye ", either another lulling sound, or a term for good night.
Wind blows intermittently and so some form of storage is required to compensate for calm periods.
Again, for early 20th century physics, the transition between the Maxwellian electromagnetic worldview and the Einsteinian Relativistic worldview was neither instantaneous nor calm, and instead involved a protracted set of " attacks ," both with empirical data as well as rhetorical or philosophical arguments, by both sides, with the Einsteinian theory winning out in the long-run.
Small numbers of seabirds, mainly fulmars, northern gannets, black-legged kittiwakes, and common guillemots, use the rock for resting in summer, and gannets and guillemots occasionally breed successfully if the summer is calm with no storm waves washing over the rock.
The capacity for successful focused meditation can be trained through calm abiding.
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