thwartedly

Updated: August 3, 2026

Then they begin to see that this, beautiful as it may be, is still a make-believe light; that we do not live in the inside of a pearl; but in an atmosphere through which a burning sun shines thwartedly, and over which a sorrowful night must far prevail.

John Ruskin - Lectures on Art: Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870