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intrigue
«Error always addresses the passions and prejudices; truth scorns such mean intrigue, and only addresses the understanding and the conscience.»
Author: Azel Backus
| Keywords:
addresses, intrigue, intrigued, intrigues, intriguing, scorns, The Passions
«There it stands, with a toss of curls and a flounce of skirts, a Carmen among the cities. the last of the Middle Eastern fleshpots. a junction of intrigue and speculation.»
Author: Jan Morris
| Keywords:
Carmen, curls, flounce, flounces, intrigue, junction, skirts, speculation, toss
«Diplomacy is a disguised war, in which states seek to gain by barter and intrigue, by the cleverness of arts, the objectives which they would have to gain more clumsily by means of war.»
Author: Randolph Bourne
| About:
Consequences,
Diplomacy
| Keywords:
barter, bartering, barters, cleverness, clumsily, diplomacy, disguised, intrigue, intrigued, intrigues, intriguing, objectives, state of war
«Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is likely, and dancers know it.»
Author: Shana Alexander
(Editor, Host, Journalist, Teacher)
| About:
Ballet,
Perfection
| Keywords:
Amid, Balkan, Balkans, ballet, ballets, ballet dancer, dancers, fashioned, fevered, hatreds, imaginations, intrigue, intrigued, intrigues, intriguing, milieu, sulfurous, The Balkans
«Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today. . . . What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.»
Author: William Allen White
(Journalist)
| Keywords:
intrigue, intrigued, intrigues, intriguing, missed, multitudes
«All the public business in Congress now connects itself with intrigues, and there is great danger that the whole government will degenerate into a struggle of cabals»
Author: John Quincy Adams
(President)
| Keywords:
cabal, connects, degenerate, intrigue, intrigued, intrigues
«Effeminate men intrigue me more than anything in the world. I see them as my alter egos. I feel very drawn to them. I think like a guy, but I'm feminine. So I relate to feminine men.»
«Away with old Romance! Away with novels, plots and plays of foreign courts; Away with love-verses, sugar'd in rhyme, the intrigues, amours of idlers; Fitted for only banquets of the night where dancers to late music slide; The unhealthy pleasures, ex»
«At one time my only wish was to be a police official. It seemed to me to be an occupation for my sleepless intriguing mind. I had the idea that there, among criminals, were people to fight: clever, vigorous, crafty fellows. Later I realized that it was good that I did not become one, for most police cases involve misery and wretchedness -- not crimes and scandals.»
Author: Soren Kierkegaard
(Philosopher, Theologian)
| Keywords:
intrigue, intriguing, involve, official, scandals, sleepless, vigorous
