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Updated: May 25, 2025
We have come to recognize that men have always misapprehended themselves, contradicted themselves, obeyed primal impulses, and then deluded themselves with sophistications upon the springs of action. In a word, unaware of what they are doing, men allow their aesthetic and dramatic senses to shape their conceptions of their own lives.
They were, goodness knows, within their rights, and we profited, as anyone may easily and cannily profit at that time, by the sophistications paraded for them; only I feel, as I pleasantly recover it all, that though we had arrived perhaps at the most poetical of watering-places we had lost our finer clue.
From that time on, every drawing has had certain characteristics, certain sophistications that the artist cannot escape except in a deliberate copy. Modern art, we call it. In tapestry it began with a freedom of drawing in figures, and an adoption of classic ornament and architecture.
A forlorn scarecrow Nat was; so tattered of garment, so smeared of coal dust, you scarcely knew him. So full of strange sophistications, too, and new trails of thought so oddly rich of experience. He gave them his story.
Amid ceaseless sophistications all times, the soul would seem to glance yearningly around for such contrasts such cool, still offsets. He said, "A man may keep the Sabbath, may belong to a church and attend all the observances, have regular family prayer, keep a well-bound copy of the Hebrew Scriptures in a conspicuous place in his house, and yet not be a truly religious person at all."
Not could she be again as a child and become radiantly clad in God's grace, until she had eliminated from her soul, by telling, all the sophistications that had been hers, including those she shared with others. In the Protestant way, she must bare her soul in public, as in the Catholic way it was done in the privacy of the confessional.
They would then be very like other words which the betrayer had heard but an hour or two before, 'That thou doest, do quickly. But such a rendering does not seem so appropriate to the circumstances as that which makes them a question, smiting on his heart and conscience, and seeking to tear away the veil of sophistications with which he had draped from his own eyes the hideous shape of his crime.
He was saturated in the space, the sheer, immense simplicity of the wild, hardly touched by the narrow strip of inhabited coast. He had given his existence to the woods, to hunting cunning beasts, the stoical endurance of blinding fatigue; he had scorned the, to him, sophistications of bricks and civilization.
From this centre the influence spread in widening circles, and was gradually transformed in the expression, mixed too with earlier notions, with crudities, with sophistications, until Justice and Love and Punishment and Forgiveness were personified and dramatized and a whole cloud-world of fancy built up.
Amid the flashy sophistications of the Parisian life to which Garnett's trade introduced him, the American sage's conversation had the crisp and homely flavor of a native dish one of the domestic compounds for which the exiled palate is supposed to yearn.
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