The Japanese are, to the highest degree, both aggressive and unaggressive, both militaristic and aesthetic, both insolent and poli...te, rigid and adaptable, submissive and resentful of being pushed around, loyal and treacherous, brave and timid, conservative and hospitable to new ways.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
How truly does this journal contain my real and undisguised thoughts--I always write it according to the humour I am in, and if a ...stranger was to think it worth reading, how capricious--insolent & whimsical I must appear!--one moment flighty and half mad,--the next sad and melancholy. No matter! Its truth and simplicity are its sole recommendations.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A building is akin to dogma; it is insolent, like dogma. Whether or no it is permanent, it claims permanence, like a dogma. People... ask why we have no typical architecture of the modern world, like impressionism in painting. Surely it is obviously because we have not enough dogmas; we cannot bear to see anything in the sky that is solid and enduring, anything in the sky that does not change like the clouds of the sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Insolent youth rides, now, in the whirlwind. For those modern iconoclasts who are without culture possess, apparently, all the cou...rage.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Archaeologists have uncovered six-thousand-year-old clay tablets from southern Babylonia that describe in great detail how the adu...lts of that community found the younger generation to be insolent and disobedient.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
by noon the whole city in all its corruption,... all its shed blood the monsoon cannot wash away, has become a temple, fragile, insolent, absolute.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The tops of mountains are among the unfinished parts of the globe, whither it is a slight insult to the gods to climb and pry into... their secrets, and try their effect on our humanity. Only daring and insolent men, perchance, go there. Simple races, as savages, do not climb mountains,--their tops are sacred and mysterious tracts never visited by them. Pomola is always angry with those who climb the summit of Ktaadn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »