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mockery
«Instead of fulfilling the promise of infinite orgasmic bliss, sex in the America of the feminine mystique is becoming a strangely joyless national compulsion, if not a contemptuous mockery.»
Author: Betty Friedan
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compulsion, contemptuous, feminine, fulfilling, joyless, mockery, mystique, strangely, The America, The Feminine Mystique
«It is one of the secrets of Nature in its mood of mockery that fine weather lays heavier weight on the mind and hearts of the depressed and the inwardly tormented than does a really bad day with dark rain sniveling continuously and sympathetically from a dirty sky.»
Author: Muriel Spark
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bad weather, continuously, depressed, Dirty Mind, Hearts of, heavier, inwardly, lays, mockery, mood, One Fine Day, Secrets of, snivel, sniveling, sympathetically, tormented
«Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad; hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us»
«No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.»
«See! those fiendish lineaments graven on the darkness, the writhed lip of scorn, the mockery of that living eye, the pointed finger, touching the sore place in your heart! Do you remember any act of enormous folly, at which you would blush, even in the remotest cavern of the earth? Then recognize your Shame.»
«Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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Friendship
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bury, carcass, carcasses, embalm, embalming, embalms, keep on, mockery, substance, substances
«While the laughter of joy is in full harmony with our deeper life, the laughter of amusement should be kept apart from it. The danger is too great of thus learning to look at solemn things in a spirit of mockery, and to seek in them opportunities for exercising wit.»
Author: Lewis Carroll
(Logician, Mathematician, Novelist, Photographer)
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amusement, apart, deeper, exercising, Great Spirit, harmony, in full, kept, Learning to, mockery, solemn, thus, wit