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dip
«We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism»
Author: Robert Hughes
(Author, Critic)
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dip, dipping, dips, dispelled, euphemism, euphemisms
«As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
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dip, dip into, serene, vantage, vantage point, wondrously
«A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon»
«These gentle historians, on the contrary, dip their pens in nothing but the milk of human kindness.»
«I believe I will dip my pink-and-white body in yon Roman tub. I feel a bit gritty after the affairs of the day.»
«Truths emerge from facts, but they dip forward into facts again and add to them; which facts again create or reveal new truth (the word is indifferent) and so on indefinitely. The 'facts' themselves meanwhile are not true. They simply are. Truth is the function of the beliefs that start and terminate among them.»
Author: William James
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
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