Word: shudder
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...White, on the other hand, at 58, can only shudder, or pretend to, at the "dark and awful things" he saw in barns, woods and alleys. It is not for him to live within himself. He must paint a dismal background against which the present will seem bright. So that he can say: "Those boys of a drab and dirty day, grown mature, have performed a miracle . . . modern civilization ... a great agricultural empire ... a rich industrial commonwealth . . . out of the bottomless cornucopia of Providence," etc., etc. He accuses men his age of overmuch pride in their material achievements and sentimentality...
...study at home, and, more important still, for safekeeping against further vandalism." For Mr. Warner makes it plain that the ignornt keepers of the chapel and the ignorant natives of the neighborhood are guilty of constant, unconscious vandalism against these ancient works of art. After witnessing with a shudder the desecration of the images by greasy hands and modern mud-daubed restorations, he proceeds in the solemn vein:--"Thus it was that I was enabled to set about a labour of love and reverently to pry from its pedestal a figure halting upon one knee, with sensitive hands clasped...
...body, mind and soul. Doctors in less complex communities may well envy the scope for observation that has been his. the diversity and clearcutness of his cases. Proportionately, he has a more rigid test to pass before his discussion of sexual unhappiness, his strictures on adult-infantilism, his "shudder" and "premonition" of a new Dark Age, can be accepted by the fairly happy rank and unselfconscious file whose physicians still give them castor oil, gruff instructions...
...women also appear to be in a fair way toward adopting this most satisfactory vice, if vice it may be called. True, certain feminine institutions of a conservative character still shudder in a manner somewhat artificial at the name of nicotine. The recent Radcliffe decision, for example, blew away any possible curl of smoke which might mingle with a collegiate curl of hair. All the democratic paraphernalia of committee and student votes were employed to extinguish some few pitiful cigarettes...
...breeze can be discounted because one naturally expects to be cold in the country. Or it means that he can go to New York (which is what he probably will do) and celebrate the joyous springtime in theatres and other places, so far from pastoral thoughts that he will shudder whenever the taxi careens along the doubtful freshness of Central Park. Those on the Dean's List have long since fitted; perjury and persuasion are the order of the day; still the undergraduate must wrap his legs around his chair until this morning before picking up his suit-cases...