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Letter "S" » spectacle
«Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world...»
«The missionary is no longer a man, a conscience. He is a corpse, in the hands of a confraternity, without family, without love, without any of the sentiments that are dear to us. Emasculated, in a sense, by his vow of chastity, he offers us the distressing spectacle of a man deformed and impotent or engaged in a stupid and useless struggle with the sacred needs of the flesh, a struggle which, seven times out of ten, leads him to sodomy, the gallows, or prison.»
Author: Paul Gauguin
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«Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.»
«There is no spectacle on earth more appealing than that of a beautiful woman in the act of cooking dinner for someone she loves.»
«The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.»
«There are people who think that wrestling is an ignoble sport. Wrestling is not sport, it is a spectacle, and it is no more ignoble to attend a wrestled performance of suffering than a performance of the sorrows of Arnolphe or Andromaque.»
«There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul»
«RECRUIT, n. A person distinguishable from a civilian by his uniform and from a soldier by his gait.Fresh from the farm or factory or street, His marching, in pursuit or in retreat, Were an impressive martial spectacle Except for two impediments --his feet. --Thompson Johnson»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
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Editor,
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«Probably there is nothing in the world so suggestive of serene contentment and perfect bliss as the spectacle of a calf chewing a dishrag, but the nearest approach to it is your reedy tenor, standing apart, in sickly attitude, with head thrown back a»
Author: Mark Twain
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Humorist,
Lecturer,
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Tenors
«There is not a more repulsive spectacle than on old man who will not forsake the world, which has already forsaken him.»