Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, ...dreaming the same dream in unison.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A poet is no rattlebrain, saying what comes uppermost, and, because he says every thing, saying, at last, something good; but a he...art in unison with his time and country. There is nothing whimsical or fantastic in his production, but sweet and sad earnest, freighted with the weightiest convictions, and pointed with the most determined aim which any man or class knows of in his times.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Young men of the fairest promise, who begin life upon our shores, inflated by the mountain winds, shined upon by all the stars of ...God, find the earth below not in unison with these,--but are hindered from action by the disgust which the principles on which business is managed inspire, and turn drudges, or die of disgust,--some of them suicides.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a grandeur in the uniformity of the mass. When a fashion, a dance, a song, a slogan or a joke sweeps like wildfire from o...ne end of the continent to the other, and a hundred million people roar with laughter, sway their bodies in unison, hum one song or break forth in anger and denunciation, there is the overpowering feeling that in this country we have come nearer the brotherhood of man than ever before.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Oh, what a catastrophe for man when he cut himself off from the rhythm of the year, from his unison with the sun and the earth. Oh..., what a catastrophe, what a maiming of love when it was a personal, merely personal feeling, taken away from the rising and the setting of the sun, and cut off from the magic connection of the solstice and the equinox!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In football, on each play eleven men act in unison, and in each action not the individual but the corporate unit acts. When Bart S...tarr completed a pass for the Green Bay Packers, all the Packers could be said to share the deed; one man alone is quite helpless. When Joe Di--aggio stepped to the plate in Yankee Stadium with his unforgettable stance and fluid swing, Di--aggio stood in spotlighted solitude, and none of his teammates could act in his behalf. Football is corporate, baseball an association of individuals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What strikes many twin researchers now is not how much identical twins are alike, but rather how different they are, given the sam...e genetic makeup....Multiples don't walk around in lockstep, talking in unison, thinking identical thoughts. The bond for normal twins, whether they are identical or fraternal, is based on how they, as individuals who are keenly aware of the differences between them, learn to relate to one another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
For decades child development experts have erroneously directed parents to sing with one voice, a unison chorus of values, politic...s, disciplinary and loving styles. But duets have greater harmonic possibilities and are more interesting to listen to, so long as cacophony or dissonance remains at acceptable levels.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »