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familiarity
«She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect.»
«In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.»
Author: William Bernbach
| About:
Communication,
Language
| Keywords:
apathy, breeds, communications, familiarity
«With a new familiarity and a flesh-creeping ''homeliness'' entirely of this unreal, materialistic world, where all ''sentiment'' is coarsely manufactured and advertised in colossal sickly captions, disguised for the sweet tooth of a monstrous baby called ''the Public',' the family as it is, broken up on all hands by the agency of feminist and economic propaganda, reconstitutes itself in the image of the state.»
Author: Wyndham Lewis
(Artist)
| Keywords:
advertised, agency, caption, captions, coarsely, colossal, creeping, disguised, familiarity, homeliness, manufactured, materialistic, monstrous, propaganda, sentiment, sickly, sweet tooth, The Agency, The Sweet, tooth, unreal
«The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all.»
Author: Daniel J. Boorstin
| Keywords:
familiarity, fills, offers, pseudo, risking, strangeness, The Thrills, tourist, two weeks, weeks
«The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity»
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
| About:
Simplicity
| Keywords:
aspects, familiarity, Hidden Things, simplicity
«Intolerance is the ''Do Not Touch'' sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness.»
Author: Eric Hoffer
(Writer)
| Keywords:
baldness, bear in mind, covers, familiarity, intolerance, ruffled, ruffles, sign on, The Do, tolerate, touching, toupee
«If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt.»
Author: William Shakespeare
(Dramatist, Playwright, Poet)
| Keywords:
acquaintance, contempt, decrease, decreased, decreases, decreasing, familiarity, in the beginning, occasion
«Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes the edge off admiration»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
admiration, breed, contempt, edge, familiarity, the edge
