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Letter "E" » exhibition
«Golf is an open exhibition of overweening ambition, courage deflated by stupidity, skill soured by a whiff of arrogance.»
Author: Alistair Cooke
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About:
Funny,
Golf
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Keywords:
arrogance,
deflated,
deflates,
deflating,
exhibition,
overweening,
soured,
whiff,
whiffing,
whiffs
«Ideal conversation must be an exchange of thought, and not, as many of those who worry most about their shortcomings believe, an eloquent exhibition of wit or oratory»
«Sir, I view the proposal to hold an international exhibition at San Francisco with an equanimity bordering on indifference.»
«This is a Senate of equals, of men of individual honor and personal character, and of absolute independence. We know no masters, we acknowledge no dictators. This is a hall for mutual consultation and discussion; not an arena for the exhibition of champions.»
Author: Daniel Webster
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Orator,
Senator,
Statesman)
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Keywords:
acknowledge,
arena,
Champions,
consultation,
discussion,
equals,
exhibition,
hall,
senate
«Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation. It is the rarest thing to find a player who has not had his character affected for the worse by the practice of his profession. Nobody can make a habit of self-exhibition, nobody can exploit his personality for the sake of exercising a kind of hypnotic power over others, and remain untouched by the process.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
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Critic,
Novelist)
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Keywords:
abused,
affected,
at present,
cathartic,
cathartics,
dramatic,
dramatic art,
exercising,
exhibition,
hypnotic,
rarest,
The Practice,
untouched
«The Church is not a gallery for the exhibition of eminent Christians, but a school for the education of imperfect ones.»
«Congress in session is Congress on public exhibition, whilst Congress in its committee-rooms is Congress at work»
«I remember, when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit . . . which I most desired to see was the one described as 'The Boneless Wonder'.»