Imperceptibly, through decades of gradual erosion, the meaning of life in the West has ceased to be seen as anything more lofty than the “pursuit of happiness, “a goal that has even been solemnly guaranteed by constitutions. The concepts of good and evil have been ridiculed for several cent...
A shy, young woman unexpectedly bumps into her soulmate (literally bumps into him). In film, this is called the “meet cute,” when the hero bumps into the heroine in the coffee shop or the department store or the hallway, knocking her books to the floor, and forcing them into conversat...
one word says it all (idiom, from Analects); cut a long story short— 一言以蔽之 make a long story short[习惯用语]— 长话短说 也可见: short形— 短形 · 短期形 · 短的形 · 短暂形 · 很短形 · 小结形 · 低矮形 · 俴形 ...
this is a shortcut, a high-powered, help-you-change-your-life-forever kind of shortcut, used by masters. If you know more than masters and millionaires, champions and billionaires, can you show us you do? Monsignor Bernard Kellogg was a funny, brilliant, rare servant of humanity, and he...
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After the row, Macomber starts to change which makes Mrs. Macomber nervous and scared. Mr. Macomber is changing and Mrs. Macomber is getting nervous. She then Get AccessRelated The Hemingway Code Hero : The Short Happy Life Of Francis Macomber Margot Macomber as the Hemingway Code Hero in ...
Known by many, this common phrase has few words, but a intense meaning. In Ernest Hemingway’s short story, “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,” the overcoming of fear is shown throughout the story. Francis Macomber and his wife Margaret Macomber are on an African safari with a ...
) who, in a totalitarian future, is put on trial for being an obsolete human, the sentence for which is death. The episode consists mostly of dialogue between Wordsworth and Fritz Weaver’s calculated Chancellor, and their verbal sparing reveals the depth of man’s search for meaning, for ...
I’m a fan of syllabic forms and like it best when the structure fades into the background, transitions are seamless, and the meaning and emotion of a piece rises to the forefront. Cronin’s poetry does that effortlessly. All poems within this collection are complemented by an evocative ...
Even after it finally dawned on me what this was about, I was unable to discover any urgent “meaning” in Mishima’s act. If it taught me anything, it was that there existed a huge gulf between bringing an idea to a literary apotheosis and doing it as an act in the real world. ...