As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the earl...y Christians felt the Cross. The planet itself seemed less impressive, in its old-fashioned, deliberate, annual or daily revolution, than this huge wheel, revolving within arm's-length at some vertiginous speed, and barely murmuring,--scarcely humming an audible warning to stand a hair's-breadth further for respect of power,--while it would not wake the baby lying close against its frame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nearby Bodie was a notoriously tough camp, where "a man for breakfast" was so frequent an occurrence that the phrase "bad man from... Bodie" was coined to describe those residents who were still in the land of the living. So impressive was its reputation for wickedness that once when an Aurora family considered moving to the town, the young daughter of the family finished her evening prayers with a tearful, "Goodbye, God, we're going to Bodie." Aurora ruffled whatever virtuous feathers it could muster and pointed scornfully. Bodie resentfully charged that the child has been deliberately misquoted--that what she had actually said was "Good! By God, we're going to Bodie"!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
As for Hitler, his professed religion unhesitatingly juxtaposed the God-Providence and Valhalla. Actually his god was an argument ...at a political meeting and a manner of reaching an impressive climax at the end of speeches.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world.... One might even think the par...anoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You just can't predict the course of friendship among girls at this age [9ââ¬â12]. There's a need--varying in intensity ...according to the individual--for Gibraltar-like attachments in this betwixt-and-between period. Impressive sophistication and maturity exist side by side with fearsome anxiety about the changing body, the person-to-be. The "best friends" are anchors against these tides of confusion. . . . Girls need the support and backing of a group to relieve their anxieties about who they are and who they're going to be.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is n...ot the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Although the primitive in art may be both interesting and impressive, as portrayed in American fiction it is conspicuous for dulln...ess alone. Drab persons living drab lives, observed by drab minds and reported in drab writing ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Twilight combined with the scenery of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, empha...tic in its admonitions, grand in its simplicity. The qualifications which frequently invest the facade of a prison with far more dignity than is found in the facade of a palace double its size lent to this health a sublimity in which spots renowned for beauty of the accepted kind are utterly wanting. Fair prospects wed happily with fair times; but alas, if times be not fair!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »