Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 28, 2025
Yet she shrank from all such enquiry, with a sense of womanly pride, doing her best to believe that there was no concealment in the case of any man with whom she could have friendly relations. She scorned the female cynic; she disliked the carelessly liberal in moral judgment. Profoundly mysterious to her was everything covered by the word "passion" a word she detested.
"Go to!", they say to themselves, "I will write a play"; and the weary auditor is tempted to murmur the sentence of the cynic Frenchman, "Je n'en vois pas la nécessité." But now, lest we be led into misapprehension, let us understand clearly that what we desire in the theatre is not new material, but rather a fresh and vital treatment of such material as the playwright finds made to his hand.
Not as if you were a giddy suffragette!" "Qui s'excuse s'accuse!" she retorted. "Anyway I'm the winner." "Right you are. The way of girls was ever so. No matter what line you take, it's safe to be the wrong one." "Hark at the Cynic!" jeered young Cuthbert. "Were you forty on the 9th, or was it forty-five?" Roy grinned. "Good old Cuthers! Don't exhaust yourself trying to be funny!
All around you, under the Concord sky, there still floats the influence of that human faith melody, transcendent and sentimental enough for the enthusiast or the cynic respectively, reflecting an innate hope a common interest in common things and common men a tune the Concord bards are ever playing, while they pound away at the immensities with a Beethovenlike sublimity, and with, may we say, a vehemence and perseverance for that part of greatness is not so difficult to emulate.
Ancestors have stories, too, and they hide them." "Well, she isn't the only girl who doesn't know." "I dare say. It isn't a wise world." "It's a lucky one. That's why it assumes to be decent." "You are quite a cynic, Elias." "By the way, now that your son is to marry her, I'd like to know just what your game is." Bansemer turned on him like a tiger, his steely eyes blazing. "Game?
In Europe the monkey is a cynic, in South America an overworked slave, in Africa a citizen, but in India an imp, I mean to the eye of the Western stranger, for in the estimation of the native he is mythologically a demigod, and socially a guest. At Ahmedabad, the capital of Guzerat, there are certainly two Mr.
These men were contemporaries; they came to the same conclusions, expressing the same thought, each in his own way, absolutely independent of the other. And as genius seldom recognizes genius, neither knew the greatness of the other. Voltaire was an aristocrat the friend of kings and courtiers, the brilliant cynic, the pet of the salons and the center of the culture and brains of his time.
All is not vanity, except to some blase cynic, made cynical by the failure of his voluptuousness, and to whom 'all things here are out of joint, and everything looks yellow because his own biliary system is out of order. That is the beginning of the book, and there are hosts of other things in the course of it as one-sided, as cynically bitter, and therefore superficial.
At any rate, the stories that were abroad about his wild youth, his connection with the strange sect known as Christians, his excommunication by them for profaning one of their rites, his expulsion from Rome by the Prefect of the City for his anarchistic harangues made a picturesque background for his cynic garb and ascetic preaching.
"Really, Devereux," said I, smiling, "you talk so like a cynic and an old bachelor, and you look so little like either, that it is quite ridiculous." "A man must be ridiculous sometimes," said he, "and bear to be thought so. No man ever distinguished himself, who could not bear to be laughed at." Mr. Devereux left the room singing,
Word Of The Day
Others Looking