Something of vengeance I had tasted for the first time; as aromatic wine it seemed, on swallowing, warm and racy: its after- flavo...ur, metallic and corroding, gave me a sensation as if I had been poisoned.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Foster the labor of our country by an undeviating metallic currency ... always recollecting that if labor is depressed neither com...merce nor manufactures can flourish, as they are both based upon the production of labor, produced from the earth, or the mineral world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Woman is the future of man. That means that the world which was once formed in man's image will now be transformed to the image of... woman. The more technical and mechanical, cold and metallic it becomes, the more it will need the kind of warmth that only the woman can give it. If we want to save the world, we must adapt to the woman, let ourselves be led by the woman, let ourselves be penetrated by the Ewigweiblich, the eternally feminine!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every civilization when it loses its inner vision and its cleaner energy, falls into a new sort of sordidness, more vast and more ...stupendous than the old savage sort. An Augean stable of metallic filth.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has t...he slightly metallic sound of a gramophone.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Why should Canada, wild and unsettled as it is, impress us as an older country than the States, unless because her institutions ar...e old? All things appeared to contend there, as I have implied, with a certain rust of antiquity, such as forms on old armor and iron guns,--the rust of conventions and formalities. It is said that the metallic roofs of Montreal and Quebec keep sound and bright for forty years in some cases. But if the rust was not on the tinned roofs and spires, it was on the inhabitants and their institutions.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »