164 And Blum found that when nations choose “hypnotic-like surrender to the leader,” they overcome “infantile helplessness and weakness, childhood traumata, child abuse and neglect and feelings of being unloved [through] an escalation to war [whereby] the sacrifice of the sons in battle...
“I’m absorbed, Aunt Catherine,” he assured her, “I really am. All my friends are joshing me—oh, I see the humor in it and I don’t care. I think a person ought to be able to take joshing. But I’ve got a sort of conviction,” he concluded gloomily. “You’re an anci...
Stelling's theory; if we are to have one regimen for all minds, his seems to me as good as any other. I only know it turned out as uncomfortably for Tom Tulliver as if he had been plied with cheese in order to remedy a gastric weakness which prevented him from digesting it...
I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect,between the disaster and the atrocity. But I am detailing a chain of facts—and wish not to leave even a possible link imperfect. On the day succeeding the fire,I visited the ruins. The walls,with one except...
Nancy, now become Nathan, said: "When I looked at myself in the mirror, I was disgusted. My new chest did not correspond to my expectations and my new penis had the look of a reject. I did not want to be a boy in a man's body, and even less a monster…". Nathan requested ...
Brell erupted in laughter once more. "So, Mr. 'I'm-the-Prince-of-Hate-I'll-never-succumb-to-the-weakness-of-Love' Innoruuk is acting like a love-sick puppy? Ah, that's a good one! Old Gloomy Puss Inny, painting his castle pink and planting daisies! I'm sure he's much improve...
" My child bore a strong resemblance to her father, and to the deceased Mrs. Sands, her grandmother. He noticed this; and while I stood before him, trembling with weakness, he heaped upon me and my little one every vile epithet he could think of. Even the grandmother in her grave did...
After stripping the body for valuables, he started removing pieces of flesh to make "ass jerky," before having Lucy do it. On the way to the Super Duper Mart, he also forced her to drink contaminated water, delighting her with breaking a Vault dweller. A brief moment of weakness resulted...
When that spirit seized him, he would leave his arduous studies and walk along the banks of the Mondego, finding in its beauty release to contemplate the tragedy of human weakness. After one of these excursions of hungry searching, Jose entered the Cathedral of Coimbra. As he knelt in the...
Not to make you feel stupid, but to test you. And not to test you to see whether or not you would pass or fail, but to test you in the sense of making you stronger, improving some weakness in your character, helping you to become a better, more patient and compassionate person. Wha...