When a lady of wealth, is seen roaming about in search of cheaper articles, or trying to beat down a shopkeeper, or making a close... bargain with those she employs, the impropriety is glaring to all minds. A person of wealth has no occasion to spend time in looking for extra cheap articles; her time could be more profitably employed in distributing to the wants of others. And the practice of beating down tradespeople, is vulgar and degrading, in any one.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming "Off with her head! ...Off with--" "Nonsense!" said Alice loudly and decidedly, and the Queen was silent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Medusa, come, we'll turn him into stone," they shouted all together glaring down, "how wrong we were to let off Theseus lightly!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I know not whether it would be too bold an assertion to say that candor makes capacity.... But in order to try the truth of any ob...servation relating to the mind, the easiest method is to illustrate it by outward objects. If, for instance, a man was to sweat and labor all the days of his life to fill a chest which was already full, the absurdity of his vain endeavor would be glaring. In the same manner, when the human mind is filled and stuffed with notions brought thither by fallacious inclinations, there is no room for truth to enter: candor being banished, passions alone bear the sway.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested--for a while at least. The pe...ople are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A picture wants solidity, a statue wants colour. But we see the want of colour as a palpably glaring defect, and we do not see the... want of solidity, the effects of which to the spectator are supplied by light and shadow. A picture is as perfect an imitation of nature as is conveyed by a looking-glass; which is all that the eye can require, for it is all it can take in for the time being. A fine picture resembles a real living man; the finest statue in the world can only resemble a man turned to stone. The one is an image, the other a cold abstraction of nature. It leaves out half the visible impression.... It appears to me that sculpture, though not proper to express health or life or motion, accords admirably with the repose of the tomb; and that it cannot be better employed than in arresting the fleeting dust in imperishable forms, and in embodying a lifeless shadow. Painting, on the contrary, from what I have seen of it in Catholic countries, seems to be out of its place on the walls of churches; it has a flat and flimsy effect contrasted with the solidity of the building, and its rich flaunting colours harmonize but ill with solemnity of the surrounding scene.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thus let this Christal'd Lillie be A Rule, how far to teach,... Your nakednesse must reach: And that, no further, than we see Those glaring colours laid By Arts wise hand, but to this end They sho'd obey a shade; Lest they too far extend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Back now to autumn, leaving the ended husk Of summer that brought them here for Show Saturday... The men with hunters, dog-breeding wool-defined women, Children all saddle-swank, mugfaced middleaged wives Glaring at jellies, husbands on leave from the garden Watchful as weasels, car-tuning curt-haired sons Back now, all of them, to their local lives....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continu...ous gradation of tones, but the musician learns the discrete intervals at which to stop the string in order to play the conventional notes. We sound our phonemes like poor violinists, approximating each time to a fancied norm, and we receive our neighbor's renderings indulgently, mentally rectifying the more glaring inaccuracies.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »