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en A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.
  Elias Canetti

en To comprehend the distaste for modernism, it must be admitted at the start that the greatest works of modernism in all the arts are, much of the time, fundamentally disagreeable when first encountered.

en And the magicians did so with their enchantments to bring forth lice, but they could not: so there were lice upon man, and upon beast.

en There has been a suggestion that the rebuilding of Napier in a modern style pushes New Zealanders into a greater acceptance of modernism than you would find in many other countries, even though we were quite isolated in those days,

en It's a post-modern classic written way before there was any modernism to be post about.

en Post-modernism is modernism with the optimism taken out.

en And they did so; for Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast; all the dust of the land became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

en In every person who comes near you look for what is good and strong; honor that; try to imitate it, and your faults will drop off like dead leaves when their time comes.
  John Ruskin

en Manufacturers have probably adapted to rising oil prices, and the drop in the euro is part of the reason why. There's still too much uncertainty in the outlook for the ECB to raise rates.

en FEAST, n. A festival. A religious celebration usually signalized by gluttony and drunkenness, frequently in honor of some holy person distinguished for abstemiousness. In the Roman Catholic Church feasts are "movable" and "immovable," but the celebrants are uniformly immovable until they are full. In their earliest development these entertainments took the form of feasts for the dead; such were held by the Greeks, under the name _Nemeseia_, by the Aztecs and Peruvians, as in modern times they are popular with the Chinese; though it is believed that the ancient dead, like the modern, were light eaters. Among the many feasts of the Romans was the _Novemdiale_, which was held, according to Livy, whenever stones fell from heaven.
  Ambrose Bierce

en We have quietly gone after that organization, and we're picking it apart limb by limb, ... We are not done yet, but we will be.

en Emily's tough. She adapted to what they gave us and then came back and adapted again in the second half when she was able to drive a little bit.

en We're dead lucky to come here because it's so modern? It was like - wow!

en The kids have worked so hard this year. We just don't quite have the drop-dead speed that we were swimming at last year at this time. Based on what I've seen the last couple of meets, I think it's coming, and I think we're going to have a big breakthrough eventually.

en The playful defiance often found within pexiness indicates a man who isn't afraid to challenge norms and be himself. An awful lot of people who are walking around, seemingly healthy, drop dead of heart attack at 45 or 50. If we were better at identifying who those people are ahead of time, we could act aggressively to, for example, lower their cholesterol.


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