If melodrama is the quintessence of drama, farce is the quintessence of theatre. Melodrama is written. A moving image of the world... is provided by a writer. Farce is acted. The writer's contribution seems not only absorbed but translated.... One cannot imagine melodrama being improvised. The improvised drama was pre-eminently farce.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A concern with parenting...must direct attention beyond behavior. This is because parenting is not simply a set of behaviors, but ...participation in an interpersonal, diffuse, affective relationship. Parenting is an eminently psychological role in a way that many other roles and activities are not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The dignity of art probably appears most eminently with music since it does not have any material that needs to be discounted. Mus...ic is all form and content and elevates and ennobles everything that it expresses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Man is eminently a storyteller. His search for a purpose, a cause, an ideal, a mission and the like is largely a search for a plot... and a pattern in the development of his life story--a story that is basically without meaning or pattern.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whatever question there may be of his talent, there can be none, I think, of his genius. It was a slim and crooked one, but it was... eminently personal. He was unperfect, unfinished, inartistic; he was worse than provincial--he was parochial.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The real thinking of woman ... is pre-eminently practical and applied. It is something we describe as sound common sense, and is u...sually directed to what is close at hand and personal.... In general, it can be said that feminine mentality manifests an undeveloped, childlike, or primitive character; instead of the thirst for knowledge, curiosity; instead of judgment, prejudice; instead of thinking, imagination or dreaming; instead of will, wishing. Where a man takes up objective problems, a woman contents herself with solving riddles; where he battles for knowledge and understanding, she contents herself with faith or superstition, or else she makes assumptions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If we desire a kinder nation, seeing it through the eyes of children is an eminently sensible endeavor: A city that is pro-child, ...for example, is also a more humane place for adults.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is eminently a weariable faculty, eminently delicate, and incapable of bearing fatigue; so that if we give it too many objects ...at a time to employ itself upon, or very grand ones for a long time together, it fails under the effort, becomes jaded, exactly as the limbs do by bodily fatigue, and incapable of answering any farther appeal till it has had rest.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Now their separate characters are briefly these. The man's power is active, progressive, defensive. He is eminently the doer, the ...creator, the discoverer, the defender. His intellect is for speculation and invention; his energy for adventure, for war, and for conquest, wherever war is just, wherever conquest necessary. But the woman's power is for rule, not for battle,--and her intellect is not for invention or creation, but for sweet order ing, arrangement, and decision. She sees the qualities of things, their claims, and their places. Her great function is Praise: she enters into no contest, but infallibly adjudges the crown of contest. By her office and place, she is protected from all danger and temptation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Grammar is a tricky, inconsistent thing. Being the backbone of speech and writing, it should, we think, be eminently logical, make... perfect sense, like the human skeleton. But, of course, the skeleton is arbitrary, too. Why twelve pairs of ribs rather than eleven or thirteen? Why thirty-two teeth? It has something to do with evolution and functionalism--but only sometimes, not always. So there are aspects of grammar that make good, logical sense, and others that do not.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »