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Letter "D" » derides
«Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse. a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance.»
Author: Louis Untermeyer
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About:
Poets
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Keywords:
adroit,
assonance,
consonant,
consonants,
deride,
derided,
derides,
matching,
muse,
Muses,
Pierian,
Pierian Spring,
pun,
punning,
Puns,
shifting,
soil,
vowel,
vowels
«When our eyes see our hands doing the work of our hearts, the circle of a thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man»
«I am to be broken. I am to be derided all my life. I am to be cast up and down among these men and women, with their twitching faces, with their lying tongues, like a cork on a rough sea. Like a ribbon of weed I am flung far every time the door opens.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
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Writer)
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Keywords:
break open,
cork,
deride,
derided,
derides,
flung,
ribbon,
ribbons,
tongues,
twitch,
twitches,
twitching,
up and down,
weed
«And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.»
«And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.»
«The vast majority of human beings dislike and even actually dread all notions with which they are not familiar... Hence it comes about that at their first appearance innovators have generally been persecuted, and always derided as fools and madmen.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Critic,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
appearance,
deride,
derided,
derides,
dislike,
dread,
familiar,
first appearance,
hence,
innovator,
innovators,
madmen,
notions,
persecuted,
persecutes
«A thing derided is a thing dead; a laughing man is stronger than a suffering man.»
«We are accustomed to see men deride what they do not understand, and snarl at the good and beautiful because it lies beyond their sympathies»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Dramatist,
Novelist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
accustomed,
deride,
derided,
derides,
snarl,
snarling,
snarls,
sympathies
«Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides, Who covert faults at last with shame derides»
Author: William Shakespeare
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Dramatist,
Playwright,
Poet)
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Keywords:
covert,
coverts,
cunning,
deride,
derided,
derides,
hides,
plight,
plighted,
unfold
«The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is.»
Author: Winston Churchill
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Author,
Orator,
Prime Minister)
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About:
Truth
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Keywords:
attack,
Attack of,
deride,
derided,
derides,
end,
ignorance,
incontrovertible,
in the end,
malice,
may,
The End,
The Truth,
truth,
under attack