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costly
«Women's hands, heavy with diamonds, stirred coffee in tiny cups or alighted playfully on a neighboring sleeve. Young men's hands, with costly cuff links and the slimmest of watches, waved languorously at wine buckets and waiters.»
Author: Kennedy Fraser
| About:
Men,
Men and Women,
Women
| Keywords:
alight, alighted, alights, buckets, coffee cup, costly, cuff, cuffs, languorously, links, neighboring, playfully, slim, slimmer, slimmest, stirred, waiters, waved
«The least costly treatment for any illness is lethal medication.»
Author: Walter Dellinger
| Keywords:
costly, For any, illness, lethal, medication, The Illness, treatment, treatments
«The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.»
Author: Thucydides
| About:
Beauty,
Common sense
| Keywords:
costliness, costly, masquerade, masquerading, supposedly
«Then took Mary a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair: and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.»
«What is wanted / whether this is admitted or not / is nothing less than a fundamental remolding, indeed weakening and abolition of the individual: one never tires of enumerating and indicating all that is evil and inimical, prodigal, costly, extravagant in the form individual existence has assumed hitherto, one hopes to manage more cheaply, more safely, more equitably, more uniformly if there exist only large bodies and their members.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
| Keywords:
abolition, admitted, assumed, cheaply, costly, enumerate, enumerated, enumerating, equitably, extravagant, hitherto, indicating, inimical, prodigal, remold, remolding, safely, There exist, tires, uniformly, weakening
«The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Foolishness
| Keywords:
costly, follies, occupation, palpably, passionately
«To spend several days in a friend's house and hunger for something to read, while you are treading on costly carpets, and sitting upon luxurious chairs and sleeping upon down, is as if one were bribing your body for the sake of cheating your mind»
«The chief pleasure in eating does not consist in costly seasoning or exquisite flavor but in yourself»
«Woe to the hand that shed this costly blood»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Punishment
| Keywords:
costly, shed, woe