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insidious
«Society's double behavioral standard for women and for men is, in fact, a more effective deterrent than economic discrimination because it is more insidious, less tangible. Economic disadvantages involve ascertainable amounts, but the very nature of societal value judgments makes them harder to define, their effects harder to relate.»
Author: Anne Tucker
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«I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity.»
«The beauty of flames lies in their strange play, beyond all proportion and harmony. Their diaphanous flare symbolizes at once grace and tragedy, innocence and despair, sadness and voluptuousness. The burning transcendence has something of the lightness of great purifications. I wish the fiery transcendence would carry me up and throw me into a sea of flames, where, consumed by their delicate and insidious tongues, I would die an ecstatic death. The beauty of flames creates the illusion of a pure, sublime death similar to the light of dawn. Immaterial, death in flames is like a burning of light, graceful wings. Do only butterflies die in flames? What about those devoured by the flames within them?»
Author: Emile M. Cioran
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«I am concerned for the security of our great Nation; not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.»
«The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.»
Author: Louis D. Brandeis
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dangers, encroachment, encroachments, insidious, lurk, well-meaning, zeal
«The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.»
Author: Ray Bradbury
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Television
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«Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insuating and insidious something that elicits secrets from us just like love or liquor.»