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is and really
That's really all he's got, all he is.
The artist looks at an ankle, a calf, a bosom and, in his mind's eye, the clothes drop away and he sees her as she really is.
The stink is all the same to me, but I really think they can make one another out blindfolded ''.
Yet often fear persists because, even with the most rigid ritual, one is never quite free from the uneasy feeling that one might make some mistake or that in every previous execution one had been unaware of the really decisive act.
Unruly hair goes straight up from his forehead, standing so high that the top falls gently over, as if to show that it really is hair and not bristle.
It only means that there will be new form, and that this form will be of such a type that it admits the chaos and does not try to say that the chaos is really something else.
`` Well, really there is none at all.
What he really wants is to find `` a sacred cause '' to which he can honestly devote himself.
It seems quite obvious that all the really difficult tasks of human beings arise from the fact that man is not one, but many.
Such, he implies, is the case with his friend, who is not really a new convert himself but merely a favorer of new converts.
If `` Jack the Courtier '' is really to be taken as Swift, the following remark is obviously Steele's comment on Swift's change of parties and its effect on their friendship: `` I assure you, dear Jack, when I first found out such an Allay in you, as makes you of so malleable a Constitution, that you may be worked into any Form an Artificer pleases, I foresaw I should not enjoy your Favour much longer ''.
In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.
He does not really approve of levity and laughter, but sex is the deadly sin.
Considering then the optimism which has permeated science fiction for so long, what is really remarkable is that during the last twelve years many science-fiction writers have turned about and attacked their own cherished vision of the future, have attacked the Childhood's End kind of faith that science and technology will inevitably better the human condition.
Rather what Kornbluth and Pohl are really doing is warning against the dangers inherent in perfecting `` a science of man and his motives ''.
In his fulminating against the literary world, Krim is really struggling with the New Yorker in himself, but it's a losing battle.
The Jackson report will provide some of the political support Mr. Rusk will need if he is to get rid of department personnel engaged, as Sen. Jackson puts it, `` in work that does not really need doing ''.
The really remarkable thing to me is that most California natives unhesitatingly elect to slow down and permit the invading car free access.
The `` West Berlin '' crisis is really an East Berlin crisis.
Please do put more pictures and articles in about Liberace, as he is truly one of our greatest entertainers and a really wonderful person.

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In some countries the trend has gone further than others: Mexico, Panama, and Venezuela are displaying open sympathy for Castroism, and there is no country -- save the Dominican Republic whose funeral services we recently arranged -- where Castroism and Anti-Americanism does not prevent the government from unqualifiedly espousing the American cause.
* 2005 – President of Mauritania Maaouya Ould Sid ' Ahmed Taya is overthrown in a military coup while attending the funeral of King Fahd in Saudi Arabia.
* The Aluk religion in the Toraja society and the people of Tana Toraja, embrace religious rituals such as the funeral ceremony where a sacred cockfight, known as bulangan londong or saung, is an integral part of the ceremony and considered sacred because of the spilling of blood on the earth in spiritual appeasement.
Of the cenotaphs and funeral monuments the most splendid is the monument to the archduchess Maria Christina, Duchess of Teschen, consisting of nine figures.
The power of testamentary disposition is basically limited to one-third of the net estate ( i. e. the assets remaining after the payment of funeral expenses and debts ), providing for every member of the family by allotting fixed shares not only to wives and children, but also to fathers and mothers.
Gale Owen-Crocker ( Professor of Anglo-Saxon, University of Manchester ) in The Four Funerals in Beowulf ( 2000 ) argues that a passage in the poem, commonly known as “ The Lay of the Last Survivor ” ( lines 2247 – 66 ), is an additional funeral.
The first funeral in the poem is of Scyld Scefing ( translated in some versions as " Shield Shiefson ") the king of the Danes.
His importance is proven once more by the grand funeral given to him by his people: his funeral at sea with many weapons and treasures shows he was a great soldier and an even greater leader to his people.
The second funeral in the poem is that of Hildeburg ’ s kin and is the second fitt of this poem.
The funeral is sung about in Heorot as part of a lay during the feasting to mark Beowulf's victory over Grendel.
The second funeral differs from the first in that it is a cremation ceremony rather than a ship-burial.
The second funeral is distinguished by themes contrasting with those of the first, as well as by a change in the direction of the plot which leads to Beowulf's fight against Grendel's Mother.
The setting and plot also suggest that the lament is funeral: the Last Survivor describes burial offerings similar to those in the funerals of Scyld Scefing, Hildeburg ’ s kin, and Beowulf.
The final funeral of the poem is Beowulf's.
The greatness of Beowulf's life is demonstrated through this funeral, particularly through the many offerings of his people.
Beowulf's funeral is the fourth fitt of the poem and acts as an epilogue for the hero who is the " most gracious and fair-minded, kindest to his people and keenest to win fame.
In other traditions, Iúna is a funeral toque.
There is speculation that a clash between Communist forces and a Japanese warship in 1978 was caused by Chinese anger after Prime Minister Takeo Fukuda attended Chiang's funeral.
The largest of three is the north-east cairn, which was partially reconstructed in the 19th century and the central cairn may have been used as a funeral pyre.
During the Second Coming storyline, Professor Xavier is seen on Utopia delivering a eulogy at Nightcrawler's funeral.
An epitaph ( from Greek epitaphion " a funeral oration " from ἐπί epi " at, over " and τάφος taphos " tomb ") is a short text honoring a deceased person, strictly speaking that is inscribed on their tombstone or plaque, but also used figuratively.

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