Word: shallower
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Life is like a stream that has flowed on and on until it becomes shallow and is nearly worn out. Then it is God's person which makes the stream reopen its heart, and life, all broad and deep, flows on again...
...condemn luxury and comfort in a sweeping way he thought senseless and characteristic only of a very shallow thinker. Certainly all the luxury with which Harvard's sons had been lavished, did not abate one whit the patriotic ardor they showed in the late war. When a test came, Harvard men were revealed, not shorn of their manliness, but armed with full strength and vigor...
...Those who are naturally proud and envious will learn from Thackeray to despise humanity; those who are naturally gentle, to pity it; those who are naturally shallow, to laugh at it." Ruskin. Agree or disagree with this, giving reasons for your opinion...
...Francis Bacon, it will be seen that his intellectuality was of a character totally different from that of Shakespeare, and the absurdity of attributing the plays to him, will at once be realized. Critics have asserted that Shakespeare put no deep moral meaning into his writings; such criticism is shallow and idle. The poet has created a world of imagination - a real sensuous world filled with life, where everybody is at the highest pitch of vitality. Around this world is a demoniac, a superhuman covering. It is absurd to assert that these supernatural characters are introduced for stage effects only...
...tank has been improved a good deal during the fall. Shallow boxes have been put in, and the water will be only eight or nine inches deep. The whole arrangement is made so that the water may move with a freer current. Oars with full blades are at present used and apparently they can be driven faster with the present arrangement than oars with holes in them could be driven in deeper water. Full bladed oars are an advantage in that they are livelier in the water...