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affection synonym
49 documents for affection synonym
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Thanks to Hitler's sidekick Hermann Goering, the name - the very word - Goering has become a veritable synonym for evil, and evil in a particularly vulgar and rebarbative form. Who can forget the image of the bloated, drug-addicted buffoon, tricked out in one preposterous hunting outfit or grandiloquent military uniform after another? Or the slimmed-down, sobered up, much reduced figure in the dock at the Nuremberg Trial, sharp, agile and unrepentant under cross-examination, but still possessed of that ingrained vulgarity that led one observer, British writer Rebecca West, to liken him to the madam of a brothel. An early and fervent adherent of Hitler and Nazism almost from the beginning, he remained unrepentant to the bitter end, despising those of his co-defendants who renounced Hitle...
..., for reasons of brotherly loyalty and affection, he protected and sheltered Albert from the retrib...
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Remember faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly kindness, godliness, charity, humility, diligence." (D&C 4:6) When we hear the word "temperance," we often think of the temperance movement, which advocated total abstinence from alcohol. While, indeed, abstinence is a component of temperance, focusing on this narrow aspect limits our understanding of the richness of the concept of temperance.
... in the indulgence of any natural affection; moderation in the pursuit of gratification" (Oxfo...In its early use, temperance was a synonym for chastity. Central to the idea of temperance is...
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... be careful that they did not show undue affection to their families for fear of being branded backwa... a ditty that appropriated, as a whimsical synonym for male genitals, the most revered of Vietnamese ...
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... end of the first year, the emotions of affection, jealousy and sympathy can be evoked. . Age 1 . Th... be introduced at this age and used as a synonym for effeminate. Girls do not suffer the same derog...
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... of the word "lord" that makes it a synonym for "god". When this letter was written (probably ... boy causes George to doubt his mother's affection for him, engendering within him a rebellious strea...
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Bawer presents evidences during the time when some people talked about The New Yorker, as if it were nothing less than the Platonic ideal of a magazine, a holy object beyond criticism of mere mortals. During its heyday, if charitable, is a pretty description of a typical story by writer John Cheever, who between 1935 and 1981 appeared in the magazine seem intended to revive a reputation that peaked with the 1978 publication of the omnibus Stories of John Cheever which has been in decline ever since his death four years later. His association with the New Yorker was a major source of self-esteem reflected in an incident which took place in the sixties.
... to mine the thesaurus for every possible synonym or near-synonym for "sad" or "sadness," including ... expression of even brotherly-seeming affection: in 1965, after receiving what he considered an ex...
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... very idea of a United Europe had become a synonym for peace and prosperity. However, it was no easy ... citizens do not have feelings and affection for their pre-EU countries (I certainly have them ...
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As the play opens, [David O. Selznick] is feverishly pitching the GWTW rewrite to [Ben Hecht], who seems to be the only person in America who hasn't read the book. [Victor Fleming] soon arrives; Selznick has pulled him from directing The Wizard of Oz to replace George Cukor at the helm of GWTW. Jaded Hecht insists, "No Civil War movie ever made a dime," and the writer struggles to follow Selznick's ''rdescription of the convoluted plot. To help, Fleming and Selznick act out the novel, scene by scene, with Hecht fashioning a script at the typewriter as they do. As fatigue drives them to the edge of physical collapse, the trio takes turns dismissing one another's craft, motives and reputation. But in the end, they get the job done. Selznick's vision is the driving force. He laments that h...
... O'Hara, it would be this saucy Southern synonym for tenacity and spunk. In 1936, Margaret Mitchell... Magnolias while also decanting great affection for Old Hollywood. The story and characters hew cl...
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... superlatives that include almost every synonym for all that is great and wondrous. It is part of ..., at least in part, explain his stated affection for the City of Brotherly Love. Freeman conveys a ...
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... believed that it is caused by excessive affection. "Your sister must've been quite beautiful." ackno... is actually Cassia (Cinnamomum aromatic, synonym cassia). This cinnamon, appealing to the American ...
