United States or Norway ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Ridicule is the commonest manifestation of any interest whatsoever, ridicule and an unfathomable contempt. For some time Perry Blair had been finding this hard to understand. The adulation had been so overwhelming at first, so whole-hearted and seeming sincere one brief year before.
Much as he admired Alfieri, it was somehow impossible for the latter to condescend to him; and the equality of intercourse between the two was perhaps its chief attraction to a youth surfeited with adulation.
"It seemed to me," said Terry, "that you threw that stone at El Sangre. I hope I'm wrong?" "Maybe," growled Slim. He flashed a glance at his companions, not at all eager to push this quarrel forward to a conclusion in spite of his known prowess. He had been a little irritated by the adulation which had been shown to the son of Black Jack the night before.
The Empress can be hard enough to those who neglect to give her adulation." "The Empress is Empress," I said formally, "and her name carries respect. It is not for us to question her doings." "I am a priest," said Ro, "and I speak as I have been taught, and defend the Faith as I have been commanded. Whether there is a Faith any longer, I am beginning to doubt.
That Beethoven kept his head in the face of all this adulation is evident from a letter written at this time to a friend at Prague in which he says, "I write nothing about our monarchs and monarchies. The intellectual realm is the most precious in my eyes, and far above all temporal and spiritual kingdoms."
He who devotes himself to tasting all the bitterness of life with wise insight would forthwith deprive himself of life. Only folly is a remedy: to err, to be mistaken, to be ignorant is to be human. How much better it is in marriage to be blind to a wife's shortcomings than to make away with oneself out of jealousy and to fill the world with tragedy! Adulation is virtue.
And oh! my Nina, sacred, strong, enduring must be, indeed, the love which lives in the same pure and elevated air as that which sustains my hopes of liberty and fame!" This was the language which, more even than the vows of fidelity and the dear adulation which springs from the heart's exuberance, had bound the proud and vain soul of Nina to the chains that it so willingly wore.
Sometimes I have a mob to hustle me to my lodgings, borne on the current of their adulation sometimes I move through a desert, as I do to-night. Your face attracted me for I believe it is the only one at Whitehall as gloomy as my own unless there are some of my creditors, men to whom I owe gaming debts."
Gresley would say, "Hester loves adulation, and as she can't get it from the Pratts and us, she has to go to those below her in the social scale, like Miss Brown, who will give it to her. Miss Brown may be very cultivated. I dare say she is, but she makes up to Hester."
Carried away by political and public adulation, the old sailor's new wife, the sister of a prominent politician, became seized with a desire to make him President.
Word Of The Day