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Letter "D" » dreamy
«There's a very fine line between underacting and not acting at all. And not acting is what a lot of actors are guilty of. It amazes me how some of these little numbers with dreamy looks and a dead pan are getting away with it. I'd hate to see them on stage with a dog act.»
«. . . these are the times of dreamy quietude, when beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean's skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember, that this velvet paw but conceals a remorseless fang.»
Author: Herman Melville
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Novelist,
Poet,
Writer)
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Keywords:
beholding,
beneath,
brilliancy,
conceals,
dreamy,
fang,
forgets,
ocean,
pants,
paw,
pawing,
paws,
quietude,
remorseless,
The Tiger,
The Times,
tiger,
tranquil,
velvet,
velvets,
willingly
«As the end of the century approaches, all our culture is like the culture of flies at the beginning of winter. Having lost their agility, dreamy and demented, they turn slowly about the window in the first icy mists of morning. They give themselves a last wash and brush-up, their oscillated eyes roll, and they fall down the curtains.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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Keywords:
agility,
approaches,
brush,
brush up,
curtains,
demented,
dreamy,
End Of The Century,
fall down,
first century,
icy,
last century,
mists,
oscillated,
oscillates,
oscillating,
roll down,
The Culture,
turn of the century,
wash
«'Lohengrin' to us ordinary mortals seemed something like the whistling of the wind through the keyholes of a cathedral, which has a dreamy charm for a little while, but by and by you long for the sound even of a street organ to rush in and break the»
Author: George Eliot
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Novelist)
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Keywords:
break even,
break wind,
by and by,
cathedral,
charm,
dreamy,
keyholes,
mortals,
organ,
rush,
seemed,
The Cathedral,
The Sound,
Through the Keyhole,
whistled,
whistles,
whistling
«There is no self-delusion more fatal than that which makes the conscience dreamy with the anodyne of lofty sentiments, while the life is groveling and sensual»
Author: James Russell Lowell
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Critic,
Diplomat,
Editor,
Essayist,
Poet)
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Keywords:
anodyne,
anodynes,
dreamy,
grovel,
groveling,
No self,
sensual
«Goals are not dreamy, pie-in-the-sky ideals. They have every day practical applications and they should be practical.»
«With crimson juice the thirsty southern day, Sucks from the hills where buried armies lie, So that the dreamy passion it imparts Is drawn from heroes' bones and lovers' hearts»
Author: Oliver Wendell Holmes
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Humorist,
Physician,
Poet,
Professor,
Writer)
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Keywords:
armies,
buried,
crimson,
dreamy,
imparts,
juice,
southern,
sucks,
thirsty