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thwarting
«The popularity of disaster movies expresses a collective perception of a world threatened by irresistible and unforeseen forces which nevertheless are thwarted at the last moment. Their thinly veiled symbolic meaning might be translated thus: We are innocent of wrongdoing. We are attacked by unforeseeable forces come to harm us. We are, thus, innocent even of negligence. Though those forces are insuperable, chance will come to our aid and we shall emerge victorious.»
Author: David Mamet
(Playwright)
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«When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order»
Author: Meister Eckhart
(Theologian, Writer)
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out of order, thwart, thwarted, thwarting, thwarts
«The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosclerosis of culture.»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
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arteriosclerosis, coupled, crippling, The Golden Age, thwarting