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The great purpose of nature," Hilda went on, putting down her cup, "reasonable beings in their normal state would never lend themselves to. So she invents these temporary insanities. And therein is nature cruel, for they might just as well be permanent. That's a platitude, I know," she added, "but it's irresistibly suggested."
Platitude for a moment, heard a word or two that proceeded from his mouth, and saying to myself, 'You are no man for me, fell into a fit of musing into the same train of thought as in the morning, no very pleasant one I was thinking of the future. I continued in my reverie for some time, and probably should have continued longer, had I not been suddenly aroused by the voice of Mr.
But just as I was beginning to console her with what thumb-marked scraps of platitude I could collect the only philosophy after all, such is the futility of systems, adequate to the deep issues of life the door opened and the manager announced that the police had arrived. We went through the ordeal of the proces-verbal. Anastasius, confronted with his victim, had no memory of what had occurred.
This is the reason why, in ages assumed to be refined, it is not a rare thing to see gentleness degenerate into effeminacy, politeness into platitude, correctness into empty sterility, liberal ways into arbitrary caprice, ease into frivolity, calm into apathy, and, lastly, a most miserable caricature treads on the heels of the noblest, the most beautiful type of humanity.
The blemishes in The Grammarian's Funeral hoti's business, the enclitic de were stimulants; they heightened his effects. They helped him make clear his meaning, that life is greater than art. These savageries spoke to the hearts of men tired of smoothness and platitude, and who were relieved by just such a breaking up of the ice.
He broke off, then said restlessly: "I think things out, you know, and at last I come to a conclusion, and it ends by being a platitude that all the goody, goody books have said times without number. But all the same that doesn't prevent it from being my discovery.
The writing was a set of key-words we did not know, but two names stood out which I knew too well. They were 'Bommaerts' and 'Chelius'. 'My God! I cried, 'that's uncanny. It only shows that if you chew long enough 'Dick, said Mary, 'you mustn't say that again. At the best it's an ugly metaphor, and you're making it a platitude. 'Who is Ivery anyhow? I asked.
To torture the Muses to madness, to wire-draw poetry through inextricable coils of difficult rhymes and impossible measures; to hammer one golden grain of wit into a sheet of infinite platitude, with frightful ingenuity to construct ponderous anagrams and preternatural acrostics, to dazzle the vulgar eye with tawdry costumes, and to tickle the vulgar ear with virulent personalities, were tendencies which perhaps smacked of the hammer, the yard-stick and the pincers, and gave sufficient proof, had proof been necessary, that literature is not one of the mechanical arts, and that poetry can not be manufactured to a profit by joint stock companies.
Every community is cursed with a number of "orators" men regarded as "eloquent" "silver tongued" men fellows who to the common American knack at brandishing the tongue add an exceptional felicity of platitude, a captivating mastery of dog's-eared sentiment, a copious and obedient vocabulary of eulogium, an iron insensibility to the ridiculous and an infinite affinity to fools.
Everybody lies every day; every hour; awake; asleep; in his dreams; in his joy; in his mourning; if he keeps his tongue still, his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude, will convey deception and purposely. Even in sermons but that is a platitude.
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