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Letter "M" » mocking
«It is a painting that exposes in oils what Chekhov so often did in print: sunlight mocking a dark isolation of the moment. A moment fixed in a brave, failing light.»
Author: Alexandra Johnson
| About:
Painting
| Keywords:
Chekhov, exposes, failing, isolation, mocking, oils, oil painting, sunlight
«The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
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area, assessment, despised, fraud, Human Relations, hypocritical, mocking, realistic, rely, sexes, whore
«Likewise also the chief priests mocking said among themselves with the scribes, He saved others; himself he cannot save.»
«Likewise also the chief priests mocking him, with the scribes and elders, said, / He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.»
«Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed; and hast defiled thyself in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries.»
«And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, which she had born unto Abraham, mocking.»
«Courageous, untroubled, mocking and violent-that is what Wisdom wants us to be. Wisdom is a woman, and loves only a warrior.»
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
(Critic, Philosopher, Scholar)
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Wisdom
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courageous, loves, mocking, that is, untroubled, violent, wants, warrior, wisdom, woman
«I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
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despairs, mocking
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