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`` His address '', Walter added, `` is that great foundling home, the American Express.
Meredith was irritated when the Grafin knocked at his door and told him, `` She is a great beauty!!
It is not good, Mr. Waddell: you will do him great harm ''.
-- liberal considers that the need for a national economy with controls that will assure his conception of social justice is so great that individual and local liberties as well as democratic processes may have to yield before it.
Idje, here '', and he nodded at the man, `` is said to have great odor.
So great a man could not but understand, too, that the thing that moves men to sacrifice their lives is not the error of their thought, which their opponents see and attack, but the truth which the latter do not see -- any more than they see the error which mars the truth they themselves defend.
It is this curious blend of rugged individualism and public service which accounts for the great appeal of the mythological detective.
We assume for this illustration that the size of the land plots is so great that the distance between dwellings is greater than the voice can carry and that most of the communication is between nearest neighbors only, as shown in Figure 2.
Since the hazards of poor communication are so great, p can be justified as a habitable site only on the basis of unusual productivity such as is made available by a waterfall for milling purposes, a mine, or a sugar maple camp.
( B ) A message runs too great a risk of being distorted if it is to be relayed more than about six consecutive times.
Since the difficulty of drawing the net is great, we will merely discuss it.
He terms this early enthusiasm `` Romantic Christianity '' and concludes that its similarity to democratic beliefs of that day is so great that `` the doctrine of liberty seems but a secular version of its counterpart in evangelical Protestantism ''.
This is important to understanding the position that doctrinaire liberals found themselves in after World War 2, and our great democratic victory that brought no peace.
`` My doctors assure me that this increased percentage of risk is not great ''.
The making of distinctions, like the perception of the great distinctions made, is an inordinately difficult business.
Their great error is to mingle the responses typical of each of the three types of change.
Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.
The discrepancy between what we commonly profess and what we practice or tolerate is great, and it does not escape the notice of others.
The men who speculate on these institutions have, for the most part, come to at least one common conclusion: that many of the great enterprises and associations around which our democracy is formed are in themselves autocratic in nature, and possessed of power which can be used to frustrate the citizen who is trying to assert his individuality in the modern world ''.
Growing out of this concern is the realization that all people of the Free World have a great stake in the progress, in freedom, of the uncommitted and newly emerging nations.
It is world-wide knowledge that any power which might be tempted today to attack the United States by surprise, even though we might sustain great losses, would itself promptly suffer a terrible destruction.
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it is a spectacle absolutely painful, an epiphany of the suffering flesh unredeemed by spirit, untouched by any spirit other than abasement and humiliation.
Life is further characterized, in antithesis to Piepsam, as animal: the image of a dog, which appears at several places, is first given as the criterion of amiable, irrelevant interest aroused by life considered simply as a spectacle: a dog in a wagon is `` admirable '', `` a pleasure to contemplate '' ; ;
The study of odd-lot indices is somehow akin to the spectacle of a man trying to outfox his own shadow, what with all observers trying to get on the side of the `` few '' at the same time.
It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.
Jack Frost is not really responsible for this great seasonal spectacle ; ;
In the letter, Bardot describes the activity as a " macabre spectacle " that " is a shame for Denmark and the Faroe Islands ...
In Germany, Beatty had ruined his reputation when he told the crews of his ships that were receiving the German High Seas Fleet for its internment at Scapa Flow, " Don't forget that the enemy is a despicable beast ," and arranged the surrender of the German Fleet as a grand spectacle of humiliation.
The visual spectacle is given more attention than the dialogue and underlying story, though the main points of the plot are covered.
Learned and ignorant alike were astonished at the spectacle ... It is a real and palpable vision of the New World.
Whereas in Circus, the musical numbers involved dancing and spectacle, the only type of choreography in Bright Path is the movement of factory machines.
The ceremony is more than just tourist spectacle, as this small military force is the front line of defence of the Monegasque royal family.
The word opera means " work " in Italian ( it is the plural of Latin opus meaning " work " or " labour ") suggesting that it combines the arts of solo and choral singing, declamation, acting and dancing in a staged spectacle.
Professional wrestling ( often shortened pro wrestling, or simply wrestling ) is a mode of spectacle, combining athletics and theatrical performance.
The Rumble match is itself a spectacle in that it is a once-yearly event with multiple participants, including individuals who might not interact otherwise.
According to Barthes the function of a wrestler is not to win: it is to go exactly through the motions which are expected of him and to give the audience a theatrical spectacle.
Janet Maslin of The New York Times said: " Generations is predictably flabby and impenetrable in places, but it has enough pomp, spectacle and high-tech small talk to keep the franchise afloat.
Hadingus realizes that he is flying through the air: " and he saw that before the steps of the horse lay the sea ; but was told not to steal a glimpse of the forbidden thing, and therefore turned his amazed eyes from the dread spectacle of the roads that he journeyed.
Wayne Rebhorn, a Castiglione scholar, states that the courtier ’ s speech and behavior in general is “ designed to make people marvel at him, to transform himself into a beautiful spectacle for others to contemplate.
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`` This is a mighty empty country '', Morgan said.
This is the Rafter Aj.
Laurel is gone, my men are gone, Ed is dead -- and you come to me, to help me.
But California is where we're goin ''.
Clayton is with him, takin him out of the valley.
His wife had said to him: `` Nellie is in love with Clayton Roy.
California is too far, he thought.
`` The main bunch is outside, but there are some over there inside the wall ''.
`` No telling how good this horse is '', Mike panted.
My God, how long is he going to wait, I thought.
`` Gray Eyes is back,, Montero said.
`` This is Mitchell Barton.
That's really all he's got, all he is.
that is, to show no curiosity whatsoever.
`` But to take him and leave his mother behind is not good ''.
`` Exterminatin' cow thieves is just a business proposition with me '', he'd blandly announce.
It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.
It is also possible, but equally doubtful, that he actually shot down the hundreds of men with which his legend credits him.
( The best evidence is that he received a monthly wage of about $125, very good money in an era when top hands worked for $30 and found.
He started toward the stairway, then turned to add, `` Tell her to come to Adams's room, that Adams is in trouble.
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.
Let me pass over the trip to Sante Fe with something of the same speed which made Mrs. Roebuck `` wonduh if the wahtahm speed limit '' ( 35 m.p.h. ) `` is still in ee-faket ''.
I seized the rack and made a western-style flying-mount just in time, one of my knees mercifully landing on my duffel bag -- and merely wrecking my camera, I was to discover later -- my other knee landing on the slivery truck floor boards and -- but this is no medical report.
One of my virtues or vices is a sort of three-dimensional imagination complete with sound effects and glorious living color.
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