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clanging
«(William Inge) handles symbolism rather like an Olympic weight lifter, raising it with agonizing care, brandishing it with a tiny grunt of triumph, then dropping it with a terrible clang»
Author: Benedict Nightingale
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agonized, agonizing, brandish, brandished, brandishing, clang, clanging, dropping, grunt, grunted, grunting, grunts, Inge, lifter, symbolism, William Inge
«?She looked into the distance, and the old terror flamed up for an instant, then sank again. Edna heard her father's voice and her sister Margaret's. She heard the barking of an old dog that was chained to the sycamore tree. The spurs of the cavalry officer clanged as he walked across the porch. There was the hum of bees, and the musky odor of pinks filled the air.?»
«Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.»
«If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give all I possess to the poor and surrender my body to the flames, but have not love, I gain nothing.»
«Nothing arouses ambition so much in the heart as the trumpet-clang of another's fame.»
Author: Baltasar Gracian
(Philosopher, Writer)
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Ambition
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arouses, clang, clanging, trumpet, trumpeting