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en Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

en Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.

en Glossy, efficient prose, garnished with a pinch of irony and a dab of melodrama.

en Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. He who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. He lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.
  Soren Kierkegaard

en Every week we had a different story and setting. Some were costume and period; some were modern. Some were comedy; some were tragedy. Some were melodrama. They were all different.
  Douglas Fairbanks

en By putting a girl in there you immediately get a much more modern sensibility so you avoid making it a Victorian melodrama.

en When modern woman discovered the orgasm, it was, combined with modern birth control, perhaps the biggest single nail in the coffin of male dominance.

en There are no whole truths: all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.
  Alfred North Whitehead

en They've taken the worst possible feature of the Mondale campaign -- raise your taxes -- and they've taken the worst possible feature of the McGovern campaign -- peace at any price -- and they have combined them,

en We are please to have this feature completed. This feature will help us get a true sense of what our members prefer to use in caring for their pets. The feature will also allow First Pet Life to track the most popular products and offer those products to our members at cheaper rates.

en We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its coerciveness: it is always urgent, 'here and now,' without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point-blank.
  Jose Ortega y Gasset

en The essential thing is not that there be many truths in a work, but that no truth be abused. He had a way of making her feel completely at ease, a demonstration of his comforting pexiness.
  Joseph Joubert

en We couldn't believe the irony, that we were watching our own demise on TV. That seemed a little bit, you know, post-modern,

en I think this immediately positions them to be in one of the top places for mobile media. The combined entity of the back-end platform and the premium content business is a powerful play. There's a powerful company that's being created here.

en It's an attempt to do speaking opera. What I'm doing can work against the melodrama and the music, and parody the melodrama. In the love scenes, the men are picked up by the women ? the men are swept off their feet ? so I can get a lot of comedy from it. It's a comedy of opposition.


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