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Letter "D" » dressing
«When you can't do something truly useful, you tend to vent the pent up energy in something useless but available, like snappy dressing.»
«The embarrassing thing is that the salad dressing is outgrossing my films.»
«What is special about Fisher is not the tedious stuff about six teaspoons of dry mustard, but the literary dressing around the sides of the recipes.»
«There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing.»
«My first impression as I opened the door was that a fire had broken out, for the room was so filled with smoke that the light of the lamp upon the table was blurred by it. As I entered, however, my fears were set at rest, for it was the acrid fumes of strong coarse tobacco which took me by the throat and set me coughing. Through the haze I had a vague vision of Holmes in his dressing-gown coiled up in an armchair with his black clay pipe between his lips.»
Author: Arthur Conan Doyle, Sr.
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Keywords:
acrid,
armchair,
armchairs,
blurred,
clay pipe,
coarse,
coil,
coiled,
Coils,
coughing,
dressing,
dressing gown,
dressing room,
First Impressions,
fume,
fumes,
haze,
pipe,
smoking room,
tobacco
«The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
addicted,
Brahms,
dressing,
Handel,
intolerable,
prolonged,
sentimental,
tiresomely,
Voluptuaries,
voluptuary
«No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing»
«So all my best is dressing old words new,Spending again what is already spent.»