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«The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.»
«You don't merely give over your creativity to making a film -- you give over your life! In theatre, by contrast, you live these two rather strange lives simultaneously; you have no option but to confront the mould on last night's washing-up.»
Author: Daniel Day-Lewis
| Keywords:
confront, contrast, film, mould, option, simultaneously, theatre, washed-up, washing-up, washing
«What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.»
Author: Sigmund Freud
(Founder)
| About:
Adulthood,
Children
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adult, adult intelligence, average, contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts, distressing, feeble, mentality, radiant
«There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.»
Author: Herman Melville
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
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contrast, contrasted, contrasting, contrasts
«We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment from a contrast and very little from a state of things.»
«The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.»
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