Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's... high-minded principles and preoccupations have ceased to function, but before they have been replaced with a totally new system of values. It represents a moment of suspension before the batteries are recharged for the new millennium, an acknowledgment that preceding the future is a strange and hybrid interregnum that might be called the last gasp of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Age. That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants keep... on digging. Most people don't. They establish contact with the soil, absorb so much vernal vigor that they can't stay in one place, and desert the fork or spade to see how the rhubarb is coming and whether the asparagus is yet in sight.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While abroad, he met with a very salacious English woman, whose liberality retrieved his fortune, with several circumstances more ...to the honor of his vigor than his morals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So immense are the claims on a mother, physical claims on her bodily and brain vigor, and moral claims on her heart and thoughts, ...that she cannot ... meet them all and find any large margin beyond for other cares and work. She serves the community in the very best and highest way it is possible to do, by giving birth to healthy children, whose physical strength has not been defrauded, and to whose moral and mental nature she can give the whole of her thoughts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We can paint unrealistic pictures of the juggler--displaying her now as a problem-free paragon of glamour and now as a modern hag.... Or we can see in the juggler a real person who strives to overcome the obstacles that nature and society put in her path and who does so with vigor and determination.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The genius of the Saxon race, friendly to liberty; the enterprise, the very muscular vigor of this nation, are inconsistent with s...lavery.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But in every constitution some large degree of animal vigor is necessary as material foundation for the higher qualities of the ar...t.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowing... vigor.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Plants are the young of the world, vessels of health and vigor; but they grope ever upwards towards consciousness; the trees are i...mperfect men, and seem to bemoan their imprisonment, rooted in the ground.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »