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Updated: June 12, 2025
She knew now that she had done a daring thing outraged one of the cheap conventions in coming alone to this clique-ridden Swiss valley. Better a thousand times have sought lodgings in some small village inn, and mixed with the homely folk who journeyed thither on the diligence or tramped joyously afoot, than strive to win the sympathy of any of these shallow nonentities of the smart set.
Wooden, soulless puppets are sufficient for him so long as they act and react upon one another. But the drama which centres in these characters cannot be satisfied with nonentities; the poet had therefore to create them himself, and the incidents then dropped out as superfluous. For a character to be poetically interesting it is not necessary that it should be faultless.
We shall have more than once occasion to remark the effects of a disposition, misanthropic and melancholy in appearance, but which proceed, in fact, from a heart too affectionate, too ardent, which, for want of similar dispositions, is constrained to content itself with nonentities, and be satisfied with fiction.
Katya despises my wife and Liza as much as they hate her. One can hardly talk at this date of people's having a right to despise one another. But if one looks at it from Katya's standpoint and recognizes such a right, one can see she has as much right to despise my wife and Liza as they have to hate her. "Nonentities," she goes on. "Have you had dinner today?
After having, by their great power and capacity for agitation, roused the country to revolution and internal disputes, it was found necessary to put them down, and from that time forward, they became mere nonentities.
These ladies were amiable nonentities, and died during the exile of their husbands; but Charles's wife had left him two sons, Louis Antoine, known as the Duc d'Angoulême, and Charles Ferdinand, known as the Duc de Berri. The Duc d'Angoulême had married his cousin Marie Thérèse, daughter of Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette. Their union was childless.
But the Presidential conventions, with criminal disregard of the qualifications of a candidate to perform the duties of President if accident thrust them upon him, went on recklessly nominating nonentities for Vice-President. The following extract from a confidential letter by John Hay, Secretary of State, to Mr.
People discuss him because he is becoming a master no one discusses the nonentities. They have no enemies. Then he is sculptor, musician, athlete well-born besides all the world is his friend. But with it all so simple bon camarade even for poor scrawlers like me. Je l'adore! 'So it seems, said David. The girl smiled over her painting.
It is said to have also enjoyed in its first few weeks an amount of traffic far beyond the calculations of the shareholders. Some of the critics of 'Robert the Rhymer, who lived at the lakes, seem to be of opinion, that his 'humour' is to be classed with such nonentities as the philosopher's stone, pigeon's milk, and other apocryphal myths and unknown quantities.
They are nonentities who are made to bear all things. They are allowed no talents except hidden ones, which must be employed in the service of their ministers. A public show of talent would ruin them. The private secretary is therefore an intimate friend in the gift of government However, let us return to the bureaus.
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