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«The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.»
Author: Adrienne Rich
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«Gross in physique, gargantuan in gourmandise, oceanic in liquid capacity, prodigal of purse, a fire hose of libido and a Niagara of comic invention, the man was excess personified and one of the great entertainers of the age.»
Author: Brad Darrach
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entertainers, fire hose, gargantuan, hose, libido, liquid, Niagara, Oceanic, personified, personify, physique
«With her unmistakable pout and jutting breasts Brigitte Bardot was more than just a goddess. For a war-weary generation she came to personify a new, liberated, sun-soaked, carefree France.»
Author: Diana Geddes
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Bardot, breasts, Brigitte Bardot, carefree, France, goddess, jutting, liberated, personified, personify, pout, pouted, soak, soaked, unmistakable, weary
«It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.»
«The guarantee that our self enjoys an intended relation to the outer world is most, if not all, we ask from religion. God is the self projected onto reality by our natural and necessary optimism. He is the not-me personified.»
Author: John Updike
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enjoys, guarantee, intended, onto, optimism, outer, personified, personify, projected, relation, relation to
«CREATIVE BEING PERSONIFIED. NO FEAR. NO HATRED.»
«The government is neither a monolith nor simply the public interest personified.»
Author: Thomas Sowell
(Economist, Writer)
| About:
Economics,
Government
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monolith, personified, personify, public interest, The Public Interest
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