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«(William Inge) handles symbolism rather like an Olympic weight lifter, raising it with agonizing care, brandishing it with a tiny grunt of triumph, then dropping it with a terrible clang»
Author: Benedict Nightingale
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agonized, agonizing, brandish, brandished, brandishing, clang, clanging, dropping, grunt, grunted, grunting, grunts, Inge, lifter, symbolism, William Inge
«[Her] fingers are brandished as a crazed and half-starved Chinese would use chopsticks.. They prod and pinch the air, leaving it bruised and beaten.»
Author: Colin McDowell
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brandish, brandished, brandishing, chopsticks, craze, crazed, pinch, prod, prodded, prodding, starved
«Yea, I will make many people amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.»
«Not on morality, but on cookery, let us build our stronghold: there brandishing our frying-pan, as censer, let us offer sweet incense to the Devil, and live at ease on the fat things he has provided for his elect!»
Author: Thomas Carlyle
(Essayist, Historian)
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