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«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.»
«Gatsby, pale as death, with his hands plunged like weights in his coat pockets, was standing in a puddle of water glaring tragically into my eyes.»
«There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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glare, glares, glaring, glow, illuminate, illuminates, illuminating, obscures, The Glow
«A poet dares be just so clear and no clearer... He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.»
«Only when human sorrows are turned into a toy with glaring colors will baby people become interested -- for a while at least. The people are a very fickle baby that must have new toys every day.»
«He, in his developed manhood, stood A little sunburnt by the glare of life; While I, it seemed no sun had shone on me»
«He, in his developed manhood, stood, a little sunburn by the glare of life.»
«Maidens like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair»
«I do not believe they are right who say that the defects of famous men should be ignored. I think it is better that we should know them. Then, though we are conscious of having faults as glaring as theirs, we can believe that that is no hindrance to our achieving also something of their virtues.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
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achieving, glaring, hindrance, hindrances, ignored
«One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.»
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