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distress
«The writer has a grudge against society, which he documents with accounts of unsatisfying sex, unrealized ambition, unmitigated loneliness, and a sense of local and global distress. The square, overpopulation, the bourgeois, the bomb and the cocktail party are variously identified as sources of the grudge. There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born.»
Author: Renata Adler
| Keywords:
accounts, bourgeois, cocktail party, considerable, dash, distress, documents, global, grudge, local, modern philosophy, obscenity, overall, overalls, overpopulation, satirical, square, The Cocktail Party, unmitigated, unrealized, unsatisfying, variously
«Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
afflictions, distress, feel for, give in, in proportion to, proportion, purse, pursed, purses
«The harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; it is dearness only that gives everything its value. I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress and grow»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Overcoming,
Smile
| Keywords:
cheap, conflict, dearness, distress, esteem, gather, glorious, in trouble, lightly, obtain, triumph
«Let him who expects one class of society to prosper into highest degree, while the other is in distress, try whether one side of his face can smile while the other is pinched. Try whether»
Author: Thomas Fuller
(Clergyman, Writer)
| About:
Smile,
Society
| Keywords:
distress, expects, higher degree, high society, one-sided, pinched, pinches, prosper, to a higher degree, to the highest degree
«Then Jacob said unto his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strange gods that are among you, and be clean, and change your garments: / And let us arise, and go up to Bethel; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.»
«The tender and delicate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter, / And toward her young one that cometh out from between her feet, and toward her children which she shall bear: for she shall eat them for want of all things secretly in the siege and straitness, wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in thy gates.»
«OVEREAT, v. To dine.Hail, Gastronome, Apostle of Excess, Well skilled to overeat without distress! Thy great invention, the unfatal feast, Shows Man's superiority to Beast. --John Boop»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Apostle, dine, distress, gastronome, overeat, skilled
«Then every man of every clime,That prays in his distress,Prays to the human form divine,Love, Mercy, Pity, Peace.»
Author: William Blake
(Engraver, Mystic, Painter, Poet)
| Keywords:
clime, climes, distress, Divine love, prays