It is the fragrant lack of practicality that makes high-heeled shoes so fascinating: in terms of static mechanics they induce a so...rt of insecurity which some find titillating. If a woman wears a high-heeled shoe it changes the apparent musculature of the leg so that you get an effect of twanging sinew, of tension needing to be released. Her bottom sticks out like an offering. At the same time, the lofty perch is an expression of vulnerability, she is effectively hobbled and unable to escape. There is something arousing about this declaration that she is prepared to sacrifice function for form.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
One of the most singular facts about the unwritten history of this country is the consummate ability with which Southern influence..., Southern ideas and Southern ideals, have from the very beginning even up to the present day, dictated to and domineered over the brain and sinew of this nation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer ... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bo...ne and sinew of the country--men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Trusting as we did to the virtue of the people, the real people, not the politicians and demagogues, we passed through the most re...sponsible and trying scenes, sustained by the bone and sinew of the nation, the laborers of the land, where alone, in these days of Bank rule, and ragocrat corruption, real virtue and love of liberty is to be found.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Were that enough, bone, blood, and sinew, The twisted brain, the fair-formed loin,... Groping for matter under the dog's plate, Man should be cured of distemper. For all there is to give I offer: Crumbs, barn, and halter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There might be seen here on the bank of the Merrimack, near Goff's Falls, in what is now the town of Bedford,... some graves of th...e aborigines. The land still bears this scar here, and time is slowly crumbling the bones of a race. Yet, without fail, every spring, since they first fished and hunted here, the brown thrasher has heralded the morning from a birch or alder spray, and the undying race of reed-birds still rustles through the withering grass. But these bones rustle not. These mouldering elements are slowly preparing for another metamorphosis, to serve new masters, and what was the Indian's will ere long be the white man's sinew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
While Michael Angelo's Sistine roof, His "Morning" and his "Night" disclose... How sinew that has been pulled tight, Or it may be loosened in repose, Can rule by supernatural right Yet be but sinew.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »