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dreadfully
«The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.»
«Heaven have mercy on us all - Presbyterians and Pagans alike - for we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| Keywords:
alike, cracked, dreadfully, mending, mercy, pagans, Presbyterian, Presbyterians, sadly, somehow
«Jealousy is the most dreadfully involuntary of all sins»
Author: Iris Murdoch
(Novelist, Philosopher)
| About:
Jealousy,
Sin
| Keywords:
dreadfully, involuntary, jealousy, sins
«Whatever you may be sure of, be sure of this - that you are dreadfully like other people»
Author: James Russell Lowell
(Critic, Diplomat, Editor, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
People
| Keywords:
dreadfully
«People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.»
«The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their ''Hub',' as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
| Keywords:
accomplishment, amusing, atmosphere, Baltimore, bores, bustle, bustles, bustling, Chicago, dine, dine in, dreadfully, hub, hubs, monster, Philadelphia, prig, prigs, provincial, sadly, shop, suburban, tedious, vestry