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«It is Patrick the Legend, of course, who is most engaging and comes to us as something of a happy Celtic party monster.»
«Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.»
«Curmudgeon: Anyone who hates hypocrisy and pretense and has the temerity to say so; anyone with the habit of pointing out unpleasant facts in an engaging and humorous manner»
«In the power and splendor of the universe, inspiration waits for the millions to come. Man has only to strive for it. Poems greater than the Iliad, plays greater than Macbeth, stories more engaging than Don Quixote await their seeker and finder.»
«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
«The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
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Literature,
Power,
Writers
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author, engaging, familiar
«I think he [George W. Bush] has a warm, engaging personality. But, you know, the presidency is more than just a popularity contest.»
Author: Al Gore
(Vice President)
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contest, engaging, George W, popularity, popularity contest, presidency, the presidency
«ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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artlessness, candid, engaging, resembles, severe
«MAD, adj. Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence; not conforming to standards of thought, speech and action derived by the conformants from study of themselves; at odds with the majority; in short, unusual. It is noteworthy that persons are pronounced mad by officials destitute of evidence that themselves are sane. For illustration, this present (and illustrious) lexicographer is no firmer in the faith of his own sanity than is any inmate of any madhouse in the land; yet for aught he knows to the contrary, instead of the lofty occupation that seems to him to be engaging his powers he may really be beating his hands against the window bars of an asylum and declaring himself Noah Webster, to the innocent delight of many thoughtless spectators.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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adj, affected, at odds, aught, beating, conforming, declaring, derived, destitute, destitute of, engaging, firmer, illustration, illustrations, illustrious, inmate, inmates, in short, lofty, madhouse, Noah, Noah Webster, noteworthy, occupation, odds, officials, pronounced, sane, sanity, spectators, thoughtless, to the contrary, unusual, Webster
«Humor is the most engaging cowardice.»
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