Word: inmost
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Patton believed in God . . . [His] style was rough, but he combined idealism and realism. He talked to God as if he admired Him. He let God into his inmost secret heart, and recognized his own human frailty...
...Freedom. The key word in Santayana's interpretation of immortality is "self-transcendence." Says he: "There is nothing more human or more satisfying than self-transcendence; and the liberation and light that come of renouncing the will seem, when really attained, the fulfillment, not the surrender, of our inmost powers...
...when the late great queen of tragediennes was 73, was heard (over Station WMCA) by U.S. radio listeners for the first time. Excerpt: They have revived a brutal way of living-Of murder, and pillaging and fire . . . Their covenants they tear to tiny shreds. To Thee who knows their inmost rage and cunning We pray with anguished hearts and heads laid low. Thou who their inmost souls and thoughts can view, Forgive them not-they know well what they...
...means minor, by no means so straight-edged as it looks. To the readers whom it will bring to the edge of their chairs it will be no simpler than a serpent's eye: an elegant, cold, quietly appalling, enigmatic investigation of genius in its inmost nature and effects...