Word: lonely
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...skyscrapers, still pierce their grotesque bleakness toward a pale sun in the center of the painting. The viewer looks up to the gray and lavender sky, feeling as though he too is lying with the victims who struggle in burnt-orange groups at the bottom of the painting. A lone gantry pushed ladderlike toward the dying sun, but stops and returns to the ground with its own image of circular death, the builder's wrecking ball, suspended over the death-groups...
...John F. Kennedy told them: "Wear the beret proudly. It will be a mark of distinction and a badge of courage in the fight for freedom." The Green Berets were, in this war at least, a final flowering of glory-Pimpernels, the last Lone Rangers, ready for anything, ascetic, hard as knives, Apaches with diplomas from Fort Bragg. For a time they were American heroes. In 1965, Robin Moore's novel The Green Berets became a bestseller, and a year later, Barry Sadler's Ballad of the Green Berets went to the top of the song charts. John...
...angry Jewish youth watched the car pull away from the Soviet mission to the United Nations in New York last week. He accelerated his own auto, tailed the lone Russian into relatively secluded Central Park. At a red light, the youth got out, ran ahead of the foreigner, shouted obscenities at him and raised his fists. The Russian hurriedly locked his car doors. "I saw his face," the youth recalled later. "It was white with fear. When I saw how afraid I had made him, it made me afraid...
...bristling eyebrows of Bernard Shaw, who foisted upon Ibsen all of his own social-reformist instincts and his penchant for exposing economically motivated hypocrisy in all of man's social institutions. But Ibsen was not like that. He was Lucifer's child, a moral rebel with a lone eagle complex who believed that the master spirit soars above the common herd of slaves, who mill about in their social bondage of marriages, families, businesses, religions, political parties and national allegiances. A friend who heard Ibsen fulminating at the playwright BjØrnson's home in 1883 said...
...must be safeguarded and reared, and a continuity of values preserved. This is what society is about, and it provides order and sustenance for the vast community of men and women who cannot fly, breathe, or even live in the ego-rarefied air of the master artists and the lone eagles. Daedalus flew but Icarus fell-so it is with Ibsen and his Nora...