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strain
«The common strain in my work is that in each case I celebrate a moment when the individual responded to his or her own humanity.»
Author: J. Steward Johnson, Jr.
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strain
«The dark-veiled silhouette that solitary form patrolling without visible strain or vainglory a demented dreamland of fearful potential.»
Author: Kathryn Hulme
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demented, dreamland, patrol, patrolling, patrols, silhouette, silhouettes, strain, vainglory
«The secret of popular writing is never to put more on a given page than the common reader can lap off it with no strain whatsoever on his habitually slack attention»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
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Writing
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habitually, lap, page, popular, reader, slack, slacked, slacking, strain, whatsoever, write off
«The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.»
«The real stumbling-block of totalitarian regimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.»
Author: Simone Weil
(Activist, Mystic, Philosopher)
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block, excitement, inability, nervous, regimes, strain, straining, stumbling, The Spiritual, totalitarian, totalitarian state
«The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
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Sorrow
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bitterness, crushes, lees, pressure, strain, vat, vats
«We live in a society whose whole policy is to excite every nerve in the human body and keep it at the highest pitch of artificial tension, to strain every human desire to the limit and create as many new desires and synthetic passions as possible, in»
Author: Thomas Merton
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Society
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artificial, excite, high-pitched, high society, human body, nerve, pitch, strain, synthetic, tension, the human body, The Limit, to the limit