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«This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy»
Author: Charles Gounod
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anti, ascetic, ascetics, calm, contemplativeness, ecstasy, horizontal, intense, monotonous, ocean, sensuous, serenity, severe, verges
«It has to be displayed, this face, on a more or less horizontal plane. Imagine a man wearing a mask, and imagine that the elastic which holds the mask on has just broken, so that the man (rather than let the mask slip off) has to tilt his head back and balance the mask on his real face. This is the kind of tyranny which Lawson's face exerts over the rest of his body as he cruises along the corridors. He doesn't look down his nose at you, he looks along his nose.»
«Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.»
«I mentally conceive of some movable projected on a horizontal plane all impediments being put aside. Now it is evident ... that the equable motion on this plane would be perpetual if the plane were of infinite extent; but if we assume it to be ended,»
Author: Galileo Galilei
(Astronomer, Mathematician, Philosopher)
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conceive of, equable, horizontal, horizontal plane, impediments, movable, projected, The Plane
«Cities are distinguished by the catastrophic forms they presuppose and which are a vital part of their essential charm. New York is King Kong, or the blackout, or vertical bombardment: Towering Inferno. Los Angeles is the horizontal fault, California breaking off and sliding into the Pacific: Earthquake.»
Author: Jean Baudrillard
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Angeles, blackout, bombardment, breaking off, California, catastrophic, distinguished, earthquake, horizontal, inferno, Kong, Pacific, presuppose, presupposes, sliding, the Pacific, towering, vertical
«Life is a horizontal fall.»
Author: Jean Cocteau
(Actor, Film Director, Novelist, Painter, Poet)
| About:
Life
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horizontal
«The difficulty with becoming a patient is that as soon as you get horizontal, part of your being yearns, not for a doctor, but for a medicine man»
Author: Shana Alexander
(Editor, Host, Journalist, Teacher)
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Medicine
| Keywords:
horizontal
«Dancing: The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
dance music, dancing, desire, expression, horizontal, legalize, legalized, legalizing, music, vertical
«Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Dancing
| Keywords:
dancing, expression, horizontal, perpendicular
«Let us honor if we can the vertical man, though we value none but the horizontal one»
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