MISCELLANEOUS PHRASES A A bewildering labyrinth of facts A blank absence of interest or sympathy A bloodless diplomatist A breach of confidence A brilliant and paradoxical talker A burning sense of shame and horror A century of disillusionment A certain catholicity of taste [catholicity = universality] A cheap and coarse cynicism A civilizing agency of conspicuous value A cleanness and probity of life [probity = integrity; uprightness] A commendable restraint A condescending and patronizing spirit A confused and troublesome time A conscientious anxiety to do the right thing A conspicuous and crowning service A constant source of surprise and delight A contemptible species of mockery A convenient makeshift A copious torrent of pleasantry A course of arrogant obstinacy A crumb of consolation A crystallized embodiment of the age A cynical and selfish hedonist A dangerous varnish of refinement A dead theological dogma A decorous and well-intentioned person A deep and most impressive solemnity A deep and strange suggestiveness A deep authentic impression of disinterestedness A dereliction of duty A disaster of the first magnitude A distorted and pessimistic view of life A dogmatic and self-righteous spirit A duel of brains A dull collocation of words A fastidious sense of fitness A fatal moral hollowness A feeling of lofty remoteness A feminine excess of inconsequence A final and irrevocable settlement A firmness tempered by the most scrupulous courtesy A fitting interval for penitence A flippant rejoinder A flood of external impressions A flourish of rhetoric A fund of curious information A furtive groping after knowledge A gambler's desperate chance A ghastly mixture of defiance and conceit A glaring example of rapacity [rapacity = plundering] A graceful nonentity A great and many-sided personality A great capacity for generous indignation A great source of confusion A gross piece of stupidity A habit of riding a theory too hard A habit of rigorous definition A happy and compensating experience A haughty self-assertion of equality A hideous absurdity A hideous orgy of massacre and outrage A high pitch of eloquence A homelike and festive aspect A hopeless enigma A hotbed of disturbance A hushed rustle of applause testified to a widespread approbation [approbation = warm approval; praise] A keenly receptive and intensely sensitive temperament A kind of fantastic patchwork A kind of surly reluctance A laudable stimulus A law of retributive justice A less revolutionary innovation A life of studious contemplation A limpidity and lucidity of style A lingering tinge of admiration A lively sense of what is dishonorable A long accumulating store of discontent and unrest A long tangle of unavoidable detail A look threatening and peremptory A many-sided and far-reaching enthusiasm A marvelous sharpener of the faculties A melancholy preponderance of mischief A memory-haunting phrase A mercenary marriage A mere conjectural estimate A microscopic care in the search of words A misconception which is singularly prevalent A mixture of malignancy and madness A modicum of truth A monstrous travesty A mood of hard skepticism A more than ordinary share of baseness and depravity A most laudable zeal A most repulsive and incomprehensible idiom A most unseasonable piece of impertinence A multitude of groundless alarms A murderous tenacity about trifles A mysterious and an intractable pestilence A mysterious and inscrutable power A narrow and superficial survey A nature somewhat frivolous and irresolute A needlessly offensive manner A nimble interchange of uninteresting gossip A noble and puissant nation [puissant = with power, might] A novel and perplexing course A numerous company A painful and disconcerting deformity A partial disenchantment A passage of extraordinary daring A patchwork of compromises A permanent and habitual state of mind A pernicious and growing tendency A perversion of judgment A phantom of the brain A piece of grotesque stupidity A pleasant flow of appropriate language A pompous failure A potential menace to life A powerful and persuasive orator A prevalent characteristic of her nature A prey to the tongue of the public A pristine vigor of style A profusion of compliments A proposition inherently vicious A puerile illusion [puerile = immature; childish] A quenchless thirst for expression A rage akin to frenzy A rare precision of insight A rather desperate procedure A reckless fashion A recrudescence of superstition A relish for the sublime A reversion to the boldest paganism A rigid avoidance of extravagance and excess A ripple of applause A restraining and conservative force A robust and consistent application A sacred and indissoluble union A sane philosophy of life A secluded dreamer of dreams A secret and wistful charm A sense of deepening discouragement A sense of indescribable reverence A series of brief and irritating hopes A settled conviction of success A sharp difference of opinion A sharp pang of regretful surprise A shrewd eye to the main chance A signal deed of justice A skeptical suspension of judgment A slight and superficial tribute A slowly subsiding frenzy A snare and a delusion A somewhat complicated and abstruse calculation A sordid and detestable motive A sort of incredulous stupefaction A source of unfailing delight and wonder A species of moral usurpation A spirit inimical to learning A spirit of complacent pessimism A startling and unfortunate digression A state of scarcely veiled insurrection A state of urgent necessity A stern decree of fate A stern foe of snobbishness A storm of public indignation A strange mixture of carelessness, generosity, and caprice A strangely perverse and poverty stricken imagination A strong assumption of superiority A subjugated and sullen population A sudden revulsion A supposed ground of affinity A synonym for retrogression A taunting accusation of falsehood A tedious and needless drudgery A temper which brooked no resistance A temporary expedient A tender tone of remonstrance A theme of endless meditation A thing of moods and moments A thoroughly sincere and unaffected effort A thousand mangled delusions A tissue of dull excuses A tone of exaggerated solicitude A touch of exquisite pathos A trace of obvious sarcasm A transcript of the common conscience A trifle prim and puritanic A truth begirt with fire A unique and overwhelming charm A vague aversion A variety of conflicting and profound emotions A variety of enfeebling amendments A vast multitude of facts A vastly extended vision of opportunity A vehement and direct attack A very elusive and delicate thought A very formidable problem A vigilant reserve A violent and base calumniator A voice of matchless compass and eloquence A warmth of seemingly generous indignations A wealth of resource that seemed inexhaustible A welcome release from besetting difficulties A whole catalog of disastrous blunders A whole whirlpool of various emotions Abounding bodily vigor Above and beyond and before all else Absurd and inconsequential career Abundant and congenial employment Accidental rather than intentional Accustomed to ascribe to chance Acquired sentiments of propriety Activities of the discursive intellect Actuated by an unduly anxious desire Acute sensibility coupled with quickness of intellect Adhere too tenaciously to forms and modes Admirable mastery of technique Admit the soft impeachment Admitted with a childlike cheerfulness Advance by leaps and bounds Advancing to dignity and honor Adventitious aids to memory Affectation and superfluous ornament Aggravated to an unspeakable degree Agitated and perplexed by a dozen cross-currents of conflicting tendency Agreeable and humanizing intercourse Aided by strong mental endowments Airy swiftness of treatment Alien to the purpose All sorts of petty tyrannies All the resources of a burnished rhetoric Allied by taste and circumstances Allied with a marked imperiousness [imperious = arrogantly overbearing] Almost incredible obtuseness Altogether monstrous and unnatural Always observant and discriminating Amaze and confound the imagination Amiable and indulgent hostess Amid many and pressing avocations Amid the homeliest details of daily life Amid the rush and roar of life Ample scope for the exercise of his astonishing gifts An abandoned and exaggerated grief An accidental encounter An act of folly amounting to wickedness An afternoon of painfully constrained behavior An agreeable image of serene dignity An air of artificial constraint An air of round-eyed profundity An alarmed sense of strange responsibilities An almost excessive exactness An almost sepulchral regularity and seclusion An ample and imposing structure An apostle of unworldly ardor An appreciable menace An ardent and gifted youth An arid dictum An artful and malignant enemy An assumption entirely gratuitous An assumption which proved erroneous An atmosphere of sunny gaiety An attitude of passive impartiality An authoritative and conclusive inquiry An egregious assumption [egregious = outrageously reprehensible] An elaborate assumption of indifference An endless field for discussion An enervating and emasculating form of indulgence An ennobling and invigorating influence An entirely negligible quantity An essentially grotesque and commonplace thing An eternal and imperishable example An exalted and chimerical sense of honor An excess of unadulterated praise An excessive refinement of feeling An expression at once confident and appealing An extensive and populous country An habitual steadiness and coolness of reflection An honest and unquestioning pride An icy indifference An idle and unworthy action An ill-assorted vocabulary An immeasurable advantage An imminent and overmastering peril An imperturbable demeanor and steadiness of mind An implacable foe An inborn and irresistible impulse An incongruous spectacle An incredible mental agility An indefinable taint of priggishness An indescribable frankness and simplicity of character An indolent surrender to mere sensuous experience An indomitable and unselfish soul An ineradicable love of fun and mystification An inevitable factor of human conduct An inexhaustible copiousness and readiness of speech An insatiable appetite for trifles An insatiable voracity An inscrutable mystery An intentional breach of politeness An interchange of civilities An intolerable deal of guesswork An involuntary gesture of remonstrance An irrelevant bit of magniloquence An irrepressible and impassioned hopefulness An irritating and dangerous treatment An itching propensity for argument An object of indestructible interest An obnoxious member of society An ominous lull and silence An open and violent rupture An outburst of impassioned eloquence An unaccountable feeling of antipathy An unbecoming vehemence An undisciplined state of feeling An unerring sense of humor An unparalleled and almost miraculous growth An unparalleled atrocity An unpatriotic and ignoble act An unreasoning form of coercion An utterly vile and detestable spirit And now I address myself to my task And the like Announced in a tone of pious satisfaction Another thought importuned him Anticipated with lively expectation Apparent rather than real Appeal to a tardy justice Appreciably above the level of mediocrity Arbitrary assumption of power Ardently and enthusiastically convinced Argued with immense force and feeling Arrayed with scrupulous neatness Arrogance and untutored haughtiness As an impartial bystander As belated as they are fallacious As by a secret of freemasonry As odious as it is absurd As ridiculous as it was unnecessary As we scan the vague unknown Assailed by poignant doubts Assume a menacing attitude Assumed almost heroic proportions At once epigrammatic and arresting [epigrammatic = terse and witty] At once misleading and infelicitous At the mercy of small prejudices Attained by rigorous self-restraint Attended by insuperable difficulties Averted by some happy stroke of fortune Await the sentence of impartial posterity Awaited with feverish anxiety B Bandied to and fro Based on a fundamental error Beguile the tedium of the journey Bemoaning and bewailing his sad fortune Beset with external dangers Betrayed into deplorable error Bewildering multiplication of details Beyond the dreams of avarice Blended with courage and devotion Blind leaders of the blind Blunt the finer sensibilities Blustering desire for publicity Bound up with impossibilities and absurdities Breathed an almost exaggerated humility Bred in the tepid reticence of propriety Brief ventures of kindliness Brilliant display of ingenious argument Bring odium upon the individual Brisk directness of speech Brutal recognition of failure Bursts of unpremeditated frankness But delusions and phantasmagoria But that is beside the mark But this is a digression By a curious perversity of fate By a happy turn of thinking By a whimsical diversion By common consent By means of crafty insinuations By no means inconsolable By temperament incompatible By the common judgment of the thinking world By the sheer centripetal force of sympathy By virtue of a common understanding By way of rejoinder C Calculated to create disgust Calm strength and constancy Capable of a severe scientific treatment Capacity for urbanity and moderation Carried into port by fair winds Caught unawares by a base impulse Ceaseless tramp of humanity Censured for his negligence Championing the cause of religious education Chastened and refined by experience Checked by the voice of authority Cherished the amiable illusion Cherishing a huge fallacy Childishly inaccurate and absurd Chivalrous loyalty and high forbearance Clever and captivating eloquence Coarse and glittering ostentation Coherent and continuous trend of thought Commended by perfect suavity Common ground of agreement Complicated and infinitely embittered Conceded from a sense of justice Conceived with imperfect knowledge Concentrated and implacable resolve Conditions of unspeakable humiliation Conducive to well-being and efficiency Confused rumblings presaging a different epoch Constrained by the sober exercise of judgment Consumed by a demon of activity Continuous and stubborn disregard Contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment Couched in terms of feigned devotion Credulous and emotionally extravagant Creed of incredulity and derision Criticized with unsparing vigor Crude undigested masses of suggestion Cruel and baseless calumnies Cynically repudiate all obligations D Daily usages and modes of thinking Dangerously near snobbery Darkly insinuating what may possibly happen Dazzled by their novelty and brilliance Debased by common use Deep essentials of moral grandeur Deeply engrossed in congenial work Deeply moved as well as keenly stung Deeply rooted in the heart of humanity Defiant of analysis and rule Degenerate into comparative feebleness Degenerated into deadness and formality Degrading and debasing curiosity Deliberate and cautious reflection Delicacy of perception and quick tact Delude many minds into acquiescence Dense to the point of stupidity Descanting on them cursorily [descanting = discussion or discourse] Devices generally held to be discreditable Devious and perilous ways Devoid of hysteria and extravagance Dexterous modes of concealment Dictated by an overweening partiality Differ in degree only and not in kind Difficult and abstruse questions [abstruse = incomprehensible ] Diffidence overwhelmed him Diffusing beneficent results Dignified by deliberation and privacy Dimly implying some sort of jest Discreditable and insincere support Disdaining the guidance of reason Disenchanting effect of time and experience Disfigured by glaring faults Disguised in sentimental frippery Dispel all anxious concern Displayed enormous power and splendor Distinguish themselves by their eccentricities Distracted by contending desires Diversity of mind and temperament Divested of all personal feelings Dogged and shameless beyond all precedent Dominated by no prevailing taste or fashion Doomed by inexorable fate Doomed to impermanence and transiency Draw back in distrust and misgiving Dreaded and detested rival Driven towards disaffection and violence Due to historical perspective Dull and trite commonplaces Dwindled to alarmingly small dimensions E Easy-going to the point of lethargy Elementary principles of right and wrong Embittered and fanatical agitation Encrusted with pedantry and prejudice [pedantry = attention to detail] Endless and intricate technicalities Endowed with undreamed-of powers Enforced by coercive measures Enormities of crime and anomalies of law Entangled in theological controversy Entirely futile and negligible Erroneous assumptions and sophistries Espoused with extraordinary ardor Essentially one-sided and incomplete Eternally fruitful and stimulating Evidently malicious and adroit Evinces a hardened conscience and an insensibility to shame Exact and resolute allegiance Examples of terrific and explosive energy Exasperating to the last degree Excruciating cruelty and injustice Exposed to damaging criticism Exposing his arrogance and folly to merited contempt Expressions of unrestrained grief Exquisite lucidity of statement Extraordinarily subtle and penetrating analysis Exuberant rush of words F Facile and fertile literary brains Faithfully and religiously eschewed [eschew = avoid; shun] Fallen into the convenient oblivion of the waste-basket Fanatical and dangerous excesses Far off and incredibly remote Fastidious correctness of form Fate had turned and twisted a thousand ways Fed by many currents from the long stream of human experience Feigning a virtuous indignation Fertility of argumentative resource Fictitious and adventitious aid Finely touched to the fine issues Fit to stand the gaze of millions Fits and starts of generosity Fixed convictions of mankind Flouted as unpractical Foolish and inflexible superstition Fostering and preserving order Free from all controversial pettifogging Freighted with the most precious cargoes Frequently recurring forms of awkwardness Fresh and unsuspected loveliness From the standpoint of expediency and effectiveness Full and tuneful diction Full of ardent affection and gratitude Full of presentiments of some evil Full of singular freshness, insight and power Full of speculation and a deep restrained excitement Fumble and stumble in helpless incapacity G Gain the applause of future ages Generous to a pathetic and touching degree Give vent to his indignation Giving an ear to a little neighborly gossip Glances and smiles of tacit contempt Gnawing at the vitals of society Grace and gentleness of manner Graceful succession of sentences Gratuitous and arbitrary meddling Greeted with unalloyed satisfaction Grooves of intellectual habit Growing sense of bewilderment and dismay Guilty and baffled antagonists H Habits of unintelligent routine Habitual self-possession and self-respect Happy and gracious willingness Hard-souled and joyously joyous Haunted by blank misgivings He affected neither pomp nor grandeur He became more blandly garrulous [garrulous = excessive and trivial talk] He declined the proffered hospitality He dropped into an eloquent silence He eludes analysis and baffles description He glanced at her indulgently He had the habit of self-engrossed silences He harbored his misgivings in silence He poured bitter and biting ridicule on his discomfited opponents He spoke with sledgehammer directness He suffers nothing to draw him aside He took his courage in both hands He turned on me a glance of stored intelligence He was disheveled and untidy He was inexhaustibly voluble Heavily freighted with erudition [erudition = extensive learning] Heights of serene contemplation Her voice had a wooden resonance and a ghost of a lisp Hidebound in official pedantry [pedantry = attention to detail] High and undiscouraged hope High-handed indifference to all restraint His chin had too vanishing an aspect His first zeal was flagging His general attitude suggested an idea that he had an oration for you His gestures and his gait were untidy His mood was one of pure exaltation His plea was irresistible His tone verged on the ironical His work was ludicrously perfunctory Hopelessly belated in its appearance I I adjured him [adjured = command or enjoin solemnly, as under oath] I am not without a lurking suspicion I bemoaned my unlucky fate I could almost allege it as a supreme example I have somewhat overshot the mark I lost myself in a reverie of gratitude I made bold to retort I must hazard the story I was extremely perplexed I will permit myself the liberty of saying I would fain believe [fain = happily; gladly] Illuminate with sinister effect Immediate and effectual steps Immense capacity for ceaseless progress Immunity from criticism and control Impartial and exacting judgment Impatience of despotic influence Impelled by strong conviction Imperiled in a restless age Imperious in its demands [imperious = arrogantly domineering] Impotent outbreaks of unreasoning rage Impromptu parades of noisy patriotism In a diversity of application In a fever of apprehension In a frenzy of fussy excitement In a frowning abstraction In a great and fruitful way In a high degree culpable In a kind of confused astonishment In a most commendable fashion In a most impressive vein In a position of undisputed supremacy In a rapture of imagined ecstasy In a secret and surreptitious way In a spirit of friendliness and conciliation In a state of mulish reluctance [mulish = stubborn and intractable] In a state of nervous exacerbation In a state of virtuous complacency In a tone of uneasy interrogation In a transport of ambitious vanity In a whirlwind of feeling and memory In accents embarrassed and hesitating In alliance with steady clearness of intellect In amazed ejaculation In an eminent and unique sense In an eminent degree In deference to a unanimous sentiment In extenuation of the past In high good humor In his customary sententious fashion In its most odious and intolerable shape In language terse yet familiar In moments of the most imminent peril In quite incredible confusion In seasons of difficulty and trial In spite of plausible arguments In terms of imperishable beauty In the dim procession of years In the highest conceivable degree In the local phrase In the nature of things In the ordinarily accepted sense In the realm of conjecture In the scheme of things In the tone of one who moralizes In the twinkling of an eye In the world of letters In tones of genuine admiration Incapable of flashy make-believe Incited by a lust for gain Incomparable lucidity and penetrativeness Inconceivable clumsiness of organization Indulge a train of gentle recollection Indulging a sickly and nauseating petulance Ineffably dreary and unpicturesque Infected with a feverish dissatisfaction Infuse a wholesome terror Inimical to true and determined principle [Inimical = harmful; adverse] Inimitable grace and felicity [inimitable = defying imitation; matchless] Injudicious and inelegant ostentation Innumerable and incessant creations Inordinate greed and love of wealth Insatiably greedy of recognition Insensibility to moral perspective and proportion Insolent and riotous excess Inspired by a vague malevolence Inspirited by approval and applause Instances might be multiplied indefinitely Instantly alive to the slightest breach of decorum Insufferable violence to the feelings Intense and stubborn dogmatism Intense sensitiveness to injustice Intercourse with polished society Intervals of respite and repose Inveigh against established customs Invested with a partial authority Inveterate forces of opposition Invincible jealousy and hate Involuntary thrill of gratified vanity Involved in profound uncertainty Involving ourselves in embarrassments Inward appraisal and self-renouncement Irregulated and desultory education [desultory = haphazard; random] Irrelevant to the main issue Irresistibly impelled by conscience Irritable bitterness and angry suspicion It assumes the shape of malignity It betrays a great want of prudence and discernment It defies description It dissipates every doubt and scruple It enslaves the imagination It extorted from him expressions of irritability It gives one a little grip at the throat It has been stigmatized as irrelevant It has more than passing interest It has seldom been surpassed It imposes no constraint It is a capital blunder It is a common error among ignorant people It is a consoling reflection It is a mark of great instability It is a staggering thought It is always something vicious It is an odd jealousy It is an intolerable idea It is impossible to resist acknowledging this It is little more than a platitude It is not consistent with elevated and dignified character It is not wholly insignificant It is notoriously easy to exaggerate It is the common consent of men It is unnecessary to multiply instances It makes life insupportable It must be a matter of conjecture It occasions suspicion and discontent It runs counter to all established customs It was a matter of notoriety It wears a ragged and dangerous front It would be a fruitless and unthankful task It would be superfluous to say It would not seem an improbable conclusion Its dominating and inspiring influence J Jealous and formidable foes Justifiable in certain exigencies [exigencies = urgent situations] K Keen power of calculation and unhesitating audacity Kindle the flames of genuine oratory Knotty and subtle disquisitions [disquisitions = formal discourse] L Labored and far-fetched elocution Laid down in a most unflinching and vigorous fashion Lamentable instances of extravagance Lash themselves into fury Lax theories and corresponding practises Lay hold of the affections Leaden mood of dulness Lend a critical ear Lest the requirements of courtesy be disregarded Links in the chain of reasoning Little less than scandalous Lofty and distinguished simplicity Long-sighted continuity of thought and plan Looking at the matter by and large Looming large and ugly in the public view Loose and otiose statement [otiose = lazy; indolent; of no use] Lost in indolent content Lovely beyond all words Lucidity and argumentative vigor Lulled into a sense of false satisfaction M Maddened by a jealous hate Maintained with ingenuity and vigor Manifestly harsh and barbarous Marvelous copiousness of illustration Marvelously suggestive and inspiring Men of profound erudition [erudition = extensive learning] Mere effects of negligence Microscopic analysis of character Mingled distrust and fear Ministering to mere pleasure and indulgence Minutely and rationally exposing their imperfections Morbid and subjective brooding More or less severe and prolonged Moved to unaccustomed tears My worst suspicions were confirmed Mysterious and invincible darkness N Naked vigor of resolution Naturally prone to believe Necessity thus imposed by prudence Nerveless and faithless folly No more than brief palliatives or mitigations Noble and sublime patience Noisy torrent of talk Not averse to a little gossip Not so much polished as varnished Noted for their quixotic love of adventure Nothing could be more captious or unfair Nothing remained but a graceful acquiescence Notoriously distracted by internecine jealousies O Objects of general censure Obscured beneath the rubbish of the age Obsessed with an overweening pride Obstacles that are difficult but not insuperable Obviously at variance with facts Occasioned by direct moral turpitude [turpitude = depravity; baseness] Oddly amenable to the proposed innovations Often employed promiscuously Ominous and swift days Omitting all compliments and commonplaces On a noble and commanding scale On sure ground of fact On the edge of great irritability On the horns of a dilemma One of life's ironical adjustments One of the foreseen and inevitable results One tissue of rashness, folly, ingratitude, and injustice Openly flouted and disavowed Oppressed by some vague dread Organs of party rage and popular frenzy Our opinions were diametrically opposed Our vaunted civilization Outward mark of obeisance and humiliation Overcome by an access of misery Overshadowed by a fretful anxiety Overwhelmed with reproach and popular indignation P Painful and lamentable indifference Palpably and unmistakably commonplace Parading an exception to prove a rule Paralyzed by infirmity of purpose Paralyzing doubts and scruples Paramount obligation and righteousness Partial and fragmentary evidence Passionately addicted to pleasure Patently inimical to liberty Patience under continual provocation Peculiarly liable to misinterpretation Peddling and pitiful compromises Pelting one another with catchwords Perfectly illustrated and exemplified Perpetually excite our curiosity Pierced to the quick Pitiful shifts of policy Plainly dictated by a lofty purpose Pleading the exigencies of strategical interest Plunged into tumultuous preoccupation Pointed out with triumphant malice Polished beauty of diction Political storm and stress. Position of titular command Preached with a fierce unction [unction = exaggerated earnestness] Precipitate and arbitrary changes Predict the gloomiest consequences Pregnant with a lesson of the deepest import Presented with matchless vigor and courage Princely generosity of praise Prodigious and portentous events Protracted to a vexatious length Proud schemes for aggrandizement Provocative of bitter hostility Pruned of their excrescences and grotesque extremes [excrescences = abnormal growth, such as a wart] Purged of glaringly offensive features Pursued to a vicious extent Q Questioned and tested in the crucible of experience Quickened into a stabbing suspicion Quickness to conceive and courage to execute Quite destitute of resources Quixotically generous about money R Radiantly and transparently happy Railed at the world Rare candor and flexibility of mind Rare fidelity of purpose and achievement Rarely brought to pass Reeling headlong in luxury and sensuality Regarded with sincere abhorrence Regulated by the fixed rules of good-breeding Religious rights and ceremonies Reluctant to appear in so equivocal a character Render null and void Rent by internal contentions Repugnant alike to reason and conscience Resigned to growing infirmities Resist a common adversary Resting on some collateral circumstance Rhetorical and ambitious diction Rich and exuberant complexities Rigid and exact boundaries Rooted in immeasurable error and falsity Roused to tumultuous activity Rude and blind criticism S Sadly counterbalanced by numerous faults Said with epigrammatic point [epigrammatic = terse and witty] Salutary in the extreme Salutary tonic of a free current of public criticism Sanity and quietness of soul Scorned as an impracticable theory Scornful of petty calculations Screen themselves from punishment Scrupulous and chivalrous loyalty See with eagle glance through conventionalisms Seem to savor of paradox Seize the auspicious moment Self-centered anxiety and preoccupation Self-command born of varied intercourse Self-interest of the most compelling character Selfish and uselessly recondite [recondite = not easily understood] Selfishness pampered by abundance Senses of marvelous acuteness Sensible diminution of our comfort Sensitive and apprehensive temperament Sentimental wailings for the past Serve the innocent purposes of life Set down with meticulous care Shames us out of our nonsense Sharp outbursts of hatred and bitterness Sharp restrictions of duty and opportunity Sharply and definitely conceived She had lost her way in a labyrinth of conjecture She took refuge in a passionate exaggeration of her own insufficiency Sheer midsummer madness Silly displays of cheap animosity Simple and obvious to a plain understanding Sinister and fatal augury [augury = sign of something coming; omen] Skulking beneath a high-sounding benevolence Slack-minded skimming of newspapers Slavish doctrines of sectarianism Slow and resistless forces of conviction Smug respectability and self-content Snatch some advantage Socialized and exacting studies Some very undignified disclosures Something essentially inexpressible Something stifling and over-perfumed Spinning a network of falsehoods Spiritual and moral significance Staring in helpless bewilderment Stealthily escaping observation Stern determination to inflict summary justice Stigmatized as moral cowards Stimulated to profitable industry Stopped as if on the verge of profundities Strange frankness of cynical brutality Strange streak of melancholy Strangled by a snare of words Strenuous and conscientious endeavor Stretched out in dreary monotony Strict and unalloyed veracity Struck incessantly and remorselessly Stupendous and awe-inspiring spectacle Subject to the vicissitudes of fortune Subjected to the grossest cruelties Subordination to the common weal Subservient to the ends of religion Sudden and inexplicable changes of mood Suddenly and imperatively summoned Suddenly swelled to unprecedented magnitude Sufficient to repel vulgar curiosity Suggestive sagacity and penetration [sagacity = farsighted; wise] Suit the means to the end Sullen and widespread discontent Superior in strength and prowess Supported by a splendid fearlessness Supremely and undeniably great Susceptible to every impulse and stimulus Sustained dignity and mellifluous precision Swamping every aspiration and ambition Swift and vehement outbursts of feeling T Take root in the heart Take vengeance upon arrogant self-assertion Taken in their totality Tamed and wonted to a settled existence Tempered by the emotional warmth of high moral ideals That way madness lies The abysmal depths of despair The accumulated bitterness of failure The agonies of conscious failure The air was full of the cry and clamor The animadversions of critics [animadversions = Strong criticism] The applause was unbounded The best proof of its timeliness and salutariness The bewildered and tumultuous world The blackest abyss of despair The blemishes of an extraordinary reputation The bluntness of a provincial The bogey of bad luck [bogey = evil or mischievous spirit; hobgoblin] The bounding pulse of youth The brunt of life The capacity for refined pursuits The charming omniscience of youth The cloak of cowardice The collective life of humanity The combined dictates of reason and experience The companion of a noble and elevated spirit The complaining gate swung open The complex phenomena of life The consequence of an agitated mind The consequence of ignorance and childish assumption The constant pressure of anxieties The creature and tool of a party The critical eyes of posterity The dead and dusty past The delimitation is sufficiently definite The dictates of plain reason The disjointed babble of the chronicler The dull derision of the world The dullest and most vacant minds The dumb forces of brute nature The dupe of some imposture The eager pretentiousness of youth The ebb and flow of events The everlasting deluge of books The evil was irremediable The exchange of harmless amenities The exertion of an inherent power The expression was keenly intellectual The facile conjectures of ignorant onlookers The facts took him by the throat The fitful swerving of passion The flabbiness of our culture The flaccid moods of prose The flame of discord raged with redoubled fury The flattest and most obvious truisms The flippant insolence of a decadent skepticism The foe of excess and immoderation The fog of prejudice and ill-feeling The frustration of their dearest hopes The garb of civilization The general infusion of wit The gift of prophecy The golden years of youth and maturity The gratification of ambition The grim reality of defeat The hall-mark of a healthy humanity The handmaid of tyranny The hint of tranquillity and self-poise The hints of an imaginable alliance The hobgoblin of little minds The holiest and most ennobling sensations of the soul The hollowest of hollow shams The homely virtue of practical utility The hubbub and turmoil of the great world The huge and thoughtful night The hurly-burly of events The idea was utterly hateful and repugnant The idle of all hobbledehoys [hobbledehoys = gawky adolescent boy] The ignoble exploitation of public interests The imminent fatality awaiting him The impulse of prejudice or caprice The incorrigibility of perverse human nature The incursions of a venomous rabble The indulgence of an overweening self-conceit The inevitable climax and culmination The inference is inescapable The infirmity and fallibility of human nature The inflexible serenity of the wheeling sun The ingenuities of legal verbiage The inmost recesses of the human heart The insipidity of indifference The insolence of power The irony of circumstances The jaded weariness of overstrained living The jargon of well-handled and voice-worn phrases The jostling and ugliness of life The lawyer's habit of circumspection and delay The long-delayed hour of retribution The lowest grade of precarious mendacity [mendacity = untruthfulness] The makeshifts of mediocrity The malarious air of after-dinner gossip The mazes of conflicting testimony The mean and frivolous affections of the idle The menacing shadow of want The mere fruit of his distempered imagination The mere reversal of the wheel of fortune The merest smattering of knowledge The meticulous preciosity of the lawyer and the logician [preciosity = extreme overrefinement] The most absurd elementary questions The most amazing impudence The most exacting and exciting business The most fallacious of all fallacies The most implacable logic The most preposterous pride The multitudinous tongue of the people The outcome of unerring observation The outraged conscience of mankind The overpowering force of circumstances and necessity The overweening exercise of power The panacea for the evils of society The panorama of history The pernicious doctrines of skeptics The perpetrator of clumsy witticisms The precarious tenure of fame The precursor of violence The pretty and delicate game of talk The primitive instinct of self-preservation The property of little minds The prophecies of visionaries and enthusiasts The proprieties of etiquette The purse-proud inflation of the moneyed man The question was disconcertingly frank The ravening wolves of brute instinct The remark was sternly uncompromising The result of caprice The rigor of the law The sanction and authority of a great name The severest shocks of adverse fate The sharp and vehement assertion of authority The sinister influence of unprincipled men The speaker drew an indignant breath The springs of human action The staple of conversation The stillness of finality The stings of self-reproach The straightforward path of inexorable logic The strong hand of executive authority The sum and fruit of experience The sum total of her impressions was negative The summit of excellence The supernatural prescience of prophecy The sweet indulgence of good-nature The sycophants of the rich The taint of fretful ingratitude The talk flowed The target for ill-informed criticism The tears welled up and flowed abundantly The tediousness of inactivity The tendency to evade implicit obligations The ties of a common cause The tranquil aspects of society The tribute of affectionate applause The ultimate verdict of mankind The unbroken habit of a lifetime The unimpeachable correctness of his demeanor The unlicensed indulgence of curiosity The unsophisticated period of youth The utmost excitement and agitation The vanishing thoughtlessness of youth The vanity and conceit of insular self-satisfaction The very texture of man's soul and life The victim of an increasing irritability The victorious assertion of personality The virtue of taciturnity [taciturnity = habitually untalkative] The voice was sharp and peremptory The want of serious and sustained thinking The widest compass of human life The wonderful pageant of consciousness The words stabbed him Their authenticity may be greatly questioned Their indignation waxed fast and furious Themes of perennial interest There was a blank silence There was no sense of diminution They affected the tone of an impartial observer They rent the air with shouts and acclamations Thoughts which mock at human life Through ever-widening circles of devastation Through the distortions of prejudice Thwarted by seeming insuperable obstacles Time was dissolving the circle of his friends Times of unexampled difficulty Tinseled over with a gaudy embellishment of words To a practised eye To be sedulously avoided [sedulously = persevering] To prosecute a scheme of personal ambition To state the case is to prove it Too preposterous for belief Too puerile to notice Too sanguine a forecast [sanguine = cheerfully confident; optimistic] Torn asunder by eternal strife Totally detached from all factions Touched with a sort of reverential gratitude Transcend the bounds of human credulity Transitory in its nature Transparent and ridiculous self-importance Treasured up with a timid and niggardly thrift Treated the idea with lofty scorn Tremendous exploits and thrilling escapades True incentives to knowledge U Unamiable and envious attributes Unbounded devotion and indulgence Uncharted oceans of thought Unconquerable fidelity to duty Under all conceivable circumstances Under the sway of arbitrary opinions Undertaken under propitious circumstances Uneasy sense of impending change Unequaled simplicity and directness of purpose Unexceptional in point of breeding Unexpected obstacles and inextricable difficulties Unfailing and miraculous foresight Unfeigned astonishment and indignation Unfounded and incredible calumnies Unhampered by binding alliances Universal in their signification Unjust and unrighteous persecution Unreasoning and unquestioning attachment Unrivaled beauty and excellence Unrivaled gift of succinct and trenchant speech Unsparing industry and attention Unspeakably alluring and satisfying Unsurpassed in force and fitness Unswerving and unselfish fidelity Untiring enunciation of platitudes and fallacies Unutterably trivial and paltry Unwavering and unquestioning approbation Unworthy and ungenerous treatment Upbraid ourselves with folly Urgent warning and admonition Utterly and essentially irreverent V Vast and vague aspirations Vastly complex and far-reaching problems Vehemently and indignantly repudiated Venerable and dignified conservatism Versatile and essentially original Versed in the arts of exciting tumult and sedition Viewed in its general tenor and substance Vigorous and well compacted Violating all decency Violent and unforeseen vicissitudes Vitiated by intolerance and shortsightedness Vivid even to oppressiveness Voracious and insatiable appetite Vulgar eagerness for place W Warnings too pregnant to be disregarded Warped by personal pretensions and self-consequence We may parenthetically note We must profoundly revere it Weigh the merits and demerits Welcomed at first with skeptical contempt Well-concerted and well-timed stratagems Whirled into rapid and ceaseless motion Wholesale friction and discontent Wholly devoid of public interest Widely divergent social traits Wield an unequaled and paramount authority Wiser counsels prevailed Withal decidedly handsome Written in indelible characters upon his heart Y Yield to urgent representations Z Zealous in the cause he affected to serve |
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