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Letter "E" » electrifying
«A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.»
Author: George Jean Nathan
(Critic, Editor, Essayist, Journalist)
| About:
Love,
Men and Women
| Keywords:
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«The visual is sorely undervalued in modern scholarship. Art history has attained only a fraction of the conceptual sophistication of literary criticism. Drunk with self-love, criticism has hugely overestimated the centrality of language to western culture. It has failed to see the electrifying sign language of images.»
Author: Camille Paglia
| Keywords:
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«An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person. Enchantment may be»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
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«To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in»
Author: Henry Miller
(Author, Writer)
| Keywords:
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«Condense some daily experience into a glowing symbol and an audience is electrified.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
condense, condensed, electrified, electrify, electrifying, glowing, symbol
«Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.»
Author: Ronald Reagan
(President)
| About:
Information
| Keywords:
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«Some people are electrifying, they light up a room when they leave.»
Author: Yiddish Proverb
| Keywords:
electrified, electrify, electrifying, lighting-up, light up, room
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