Word: splendor
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...Inez was, and had been, every- thing he cried for. Yet he could not bear to hurt Joan?and it was only after weeks of unhappiness that he mastered himself at last. Then, at the moment of crisis, he realized that Inez had only been an impulse for splendor in his life?an impulse fulfillment could only spoil it. Her power faded from him?after all, he was made for work (he thought), not for happiness. So he stayed with Joan whole-heartedly?and was happy as well. True, the centaur was tamed at last?broken to the plow...
...their exaltation of spirit be obscured, though men make light of the aspirations for making that shone upon their path, though profiteers grow rich upon the havoc wrought by war, though their own comrades use it to extort a dole; yet is their sacrifice of undying value and untarnished splendor. It stands for a faith that life is but a means to a still greater end, that life has an object More precious far than life itself. No selfishness of man or nation can, blot their sacrifice or mock then faith, for through that faith alone is life worth living...
...brief return, a sudden coming, followed immediately by a sudden disappearance; a single apparition, an arrival and departure, with a single word as Thou comest and goest, a single sign, an admonition, a lightning flash in the sky, a light in the night, an opening of the heavens, a splendor in the night ? one hour alone of Thy eternity, one word alone for all Thy silence...
...rises to supremacy through her magnificent repression, her submersion of personality in her part, her eager spirit. For years she would use no makeup. She preferred to make her entrances unnoticed in the crowd, suddenly to step forward and carry the play away with the splendor of her fervor. All her life she shunned publicity. Bernard Shaw declared her incomparably the superior of Bernhardt, after witnessing their rival interpretations of La Dame aux Camellias...
Guards' Parade. In the presence of the Princes August Wilhelm and Oscar and the ex-Crown Princess, a parade of the Imperial Guard in full pre-War splendor took place at Potsdam ? a town just outside Berlin, where the Kaiser had his principal palace. The occasion was the unveiling of a monument to the memory of fallen members of the Imperial Guard...