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...should be ultimately grateful to God for the gift of appreciation and of individuality. Religious worship affords an outlet for the personal gratitude one feels for life. Without this emotional outlet or without the solace of artistic creation, humans could not endure their own pent-up gratitude...
...sprit of eternal goodness and truth and beauty that breaks the yearning heart. Contemplation of this beauty lifted the worshipper to such raptures of desire and abortion that mere words could not express the feelings, and motion was the natural outlet, however feel, for the pent-up emotions. So in the Molpe we find the primal expression of exaltation and worship that is present in all better poetry since...
...yellow menace, especially to denote Japan, is often on the lips of Caucasian alarmists. The external formidability of Japan and the obvious straights of her population, so pent within narrow islands, have given her, in the words of social prophets a predatory future. They have seen the damn erected against the yellow millions by the coast states of America as only a truce and postponement of the inevitable inundation. The actuality of these dismal prospects is for scholars of the subject to ascertain. But a bit of recent news from Asia suggests that the armor of the east rings...
Eclipsed for an hour, he turned to his pen. Steadily there flowed out upon literary France the prodigious flood of his pent up genius: La, Melée Sociale, Le Grand Pan, Le Voile du Bonheur, etc., ad infinitum. His published works have swelled to the equivalent of 35,000 ordinary novel-size pages...
...mourners. The tense excitement cf the populace was severe and the involuntary surge of the crowd as it tried to prolong its last look at the majesty of the funeral pomp caused women to shriek and faint. (U. S. newspapers attributed this erroneously to "the bursting of emotion pent up beyond endurance." Berlin crowds, as is well known, are not so hysterical...