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Word: reproaches (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cannot conceive the possibility of God loving me, when I feel so clearly that even the affection which human beings evince for me can only be a mistake on their part." Yet she was not incapable of self-analysis, and at one point duels shrewdly with Freud: "To reproach mystics with loving God by means of the faculty of sexual love is as though one were to reproach a painter with making pictures by means of colors composed of material substances. We haven't anything else with which to love ... The whole of Freudian doctrine is saturated with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Saint of the Undecided | 12/3/1956 | See Source »

...state is like a big thoroughbred horse, so big that he is a bit slow and heavy, and wants a gadfly to wake him up. I think the god put me on the state something like that, to wake you up and persuade you and reproach you every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: A PLATO SAMPLER | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

While the acting is above reproach, the photography and background music add little when they are not distracting. The technical qualities of the film are not helped by splices and cuts. The flashback technique is effective, although the point of view is not maintained faithfully throughout. The film is most effective in the intimate scenes when the internal conflict of Hugo can be felt most dramatically. As such moments comprise the better part of the film, Dirty Hands is powerful not only as an insight into Communism, but also as a drama of an individual searching for himself...

Author: By Robert H. Sand, | Title: Dirty Hands | 4/16/1956 | See Source »

...Democrats, to defend themselves against the reproach of softness on communism, will be tempted to take a "tough" line on foreign policy issues; and the Republicans, in an effort to pour substance into the "peace" half of their "Peace and Prosperity" slogan, will call piously for a patient bipartisanship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Diplomat Looks at American Politics | 4/13/1956 | See Source »

...Britain's principles of fair play and legality. No other course was possible, he argued, without violating one or the other. Before he was through, the slovenly security practices and clubby indulgence of the Foreign Office had become shining testaments to British high-mindedness and a standing reproach to "McCarthyism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Fair Play for Spies | 11/21/1955 | See Source »

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