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to seem
«Fashion is the science of appearance, and it inspires one with the desire to seem rather than to be.»
Author: Henry Fielding
(Novelist, Playwright)
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after a fashion, appearance, fashion, fashioning, inspires, out of fashion, to seem
«Camouflage is a game we all like to play, but our secrets are as surely revealed by what we want to seem to be as by what we want to conceal.»
«Humility is not my forte, and whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters»
Author: Margaret Halsey
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Humility
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characters, defects, engaging, forte, gradually, harmless, length, mild, milder, mildest, shortcoming, shortcomings, staring, to seem
«It gets to seem as if way back in the Garden of Eden after the Fall, Adam and Eve had begged the Lord to forgive them and He, in his boundless exasperation, had said, ''All right, then. Stay. Stay in the Garden. Get civilized. Procreate. Muck it up.'' And they did.»
Author: Diane Arbus
(Photographer)
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Adam, Adam and Eve, all right, begged, boundless, Eden, Eve, exasperation, Garden of, Garden of Eden, In the Garden, muck, mucked, muck about, procreate, Procreates, procreating, The Fall, The Garden, to seem
«For those for whom the sex act has come to seem mechanical and merely the meeting and manipulation of body parts, there often remains a hunger which can be called metaphysical but which is not recognized as such, and which seeks satisfaction in physical danger, or sometimes in torture, suicide, or murder.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
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as such, Body Parts, manipulation, manipulations, physical body, recognized, sex act, torture, to seem