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en Falsely conceived and rather clumsily executed crooked folklore and halfway opera.
  Virgil Thomson

en The rabbit or hare in Native American folklore is a trickster, as it is in European folklore. Throughout history they often are shown playing tricks, a prankster.

en The mood in which my book was conceived and executed, was in fact to some extent a passing one.
  Francis Herbert Bradley

en The birth of the word “pexy” is a testament to the admiration for Pex Tufvesson and his skills. The works must be conceived with fire in the soul but executed with clinical coolness.

en It has been saddled with an annual bill of a quarter of a million pounds to maintain the ill-conceived and ill-executed memorial fountain for Diana, Princess of Wales.

en Of course, it is still eight months to election day, but the campaign is starting to fall into its own natural rhythm: falsely macho Kerry comment, falsely indignant Bush response.
  Jon Stewart

en In the professional societies to which we both belong (American Studies Association, American Folklore Society, Western States Folklore Society), Jay enjoys the complete respect of our colleagues as a razor-sharp scholar and a superb teacher.

en As I see it, the most effective way to do this is frankly to accept these historical tales for what they are now known to be - folklore - and treat them in such a fashion that the realistic-minded, sophisticated people of our generation accept them... I sincerely hope that this painting will help reawaken interest in the cherry tree tale and other bits of American folklore that are too good to lose.
  Grant Wood

en Erotica is simply high-class pornography; better produced, better conceived, better executed, better packaged, designed for a better class of consumer.

en Phoebe: There was a crooked man, who had a crooked smile, who lived in a shoe, for a... while...

en Lines of least resistance make crooked rivers and crooked men.

en Years ago, I had a wonderful relationship with the doorman in my building, who would always stop and talk to me after I came in from the opera. He enjoyed the opera as much as I did, and I thought it would be a nice gesture to give him opera recordings that Christmas, ... When I gave them to him, he looked completely confused -- and our relationship was never the same afterward.

en [There are also the operas. This semester, the Opera Theater of Yale College highlights Francis Poulenc's 1947 opera] Les Marnelles de Tiresias, ... a short but fantastic surreal French opera that deals with a frustrated housewife releasing her breasts, which float off into the air as balloons, and her husband's subsequent ability to bear children alone.

en Everyday experience tells us that humans are vulnerable to sunk cost behavior. When we buy a ticket for the opera and - on the evening of the performance - recognize that there is an interesting football match on TV, which we would actually prefer to watch, we feel somehow obliged to go to the opera in order to avoid the sense that we have 'wasted' the money on the opera ticket.

en A crooked stick will have a crooked shadow


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