Word: quench
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...attempts for sublimity in the Berg Concerto, contemporary idioms in general lend themselves only with great difficulty to anything approaching the sublime. After all, though a tinkle-tinkle here and there in a Webern score may satiate one's thirst for the piquant and highly flavored, it does not quench the far more important thirst of the soul. Elevated feeling in the human spirit is generally ignored by modern composers, but it is an important response to the musical art. Any thinking person who made a list of the ten greatest compositions would have to include some exalted music--like...
...approximately one a.m. a flaming ashcan appeared in the center of the yard. Soon, fifteen Cambridge firemen came rushing from their nocturnal slumbers to quench the celebration. Armed with two pumpers and a rescue unit, the men made quick work of the inferno as five firefighters overturned the container and the rest flooded its contents...
...story of bringing home the bacon, the cat, as soon as it got its saucer of milk, began to kill the rat, which began to gnaw the rope, which began to hang the butcher, who began to kill the ox, which began to drink the water, which began to quench the fire, which began to burn the stick, which began to beat the dog, which began to bite the little pig-which then in fright jumped over the stile so that the old woman brought it home from market that night after...
This, as Happy's acquaintances see it, is just as Happy wants it. With Wetherby downed, Kentucky may have a G.O.P. Senator in the capital, but it will also have Chandler at home, brewing a political case of sour mash to quench his senatorial thirst for Cooper's seat...
...cried in a loud voice, as though he were pronouncing a curse, 'woe to him who has slaked his thirst!' " For Captain Michales himself there is only one thirst more unslakable than life -freedom-and at novel's end, he dies trying to quench...