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Letter "S" » snivel
«Writing is the only trade I know of in which sniveling confessions of extreme incompetence are taken as credentials probative of powers to astound the multitude.»
«It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.»
Author: Muriel Spark
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Keywords:
bad weather,
continuously,
depressed,
Dirty Mind,
Hearts of,
heavier,
inwardly,
lays,
mockery,
mood,
One Fine Day,
Secrets of,
snivel,
sniveling,
sympathetically,
tormented
«Danger lies in the writer becoming the victim of his own exaggeration, losing the exact notion of sincerity, and in the end coming to despise truth itself as something too cold, too blunt for his purpose -- as, in fact, not good enough for his insistent emotion. From laughter and tears the descent is easy to sniveling and giggles.»
Author: Joseph Conrad
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Keywords:
blunt,
blunted,
blunting,
blunts,
descent,
despise,
exact,
exaggeration,
exaggerations,
giggle,
giggled,
giggles,
good enough,
insistent,
notion,
sincerity,
snivel,
sniveling,
The Victim,
victim
«Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
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Critic,
Essayist,
Playwright)
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Keywords:
Black Death,
bond,
division,
purple,
radiant,
snivel,
sniveling,
violet,
violets
«The American people, taken one with another, constitute the most timorous, sniveling, poltroonish, ignominious mob of serfs and goose-steppers ever gathered under one flag in Christendom since the end of the middle ages»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
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Critic,
Journalist)
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About:
America and Americans
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Keywords:
American flag,
American people,
Christendom,
constitute,
flag,
gathered,
goose,
ignominious,
middle ages,
mob,
serf,
serfs,
snivel,
sniveling,
stepper,
steppers,
timorous