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worn out
«If the individual, or heretic, gets hold of some essential truth, or sees some error in the system being practiced, he commits so many marginal errors himself that he is worn out before he can establish his point.»
Author: Ezra Pound
(Critic, Editor, Poet, Translator)
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commits, establish, heretic, marginal, practiced, the system, worn, worn out
«The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.»
«There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship /only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.»
«Its idea of ''production value'' is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.»
Author: Raymond Chandler
(Writer)
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costume, dressing, eighteen, expressions, hangover, hangovers, idol, mentality, muddle, muddled, production, puss, rewarding, throw away, tricks, vehicle, worn, worn out
«To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
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adjective, adjectives, cluttered, Dead language, decorative, encroachment, encroachments, Greek, Greek word, Latin, lure, lured, lures, obscurity, phrases, reliable, struggling, vagueness, worn, worn out, writes
«The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ailment, clod, feverish, Forces of Nature, Force of Nature, heap, heaped, heaping, heap up, life force, mighty, recognized, scrap, scraps, selfish, thoroughly, thrown, worn, worn out