Word: soulfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...voice was soft and gentle, but his soul was on fire. He, the true philosopher, was defending death--death that plucked out the nails of earthly pleasure and pain which had riveted the soul to the body and had prevented man from seeing absolute beauty, absolute wisdom, and absolute truth. He spoke of many proofs of immortality, but his hearers needed only one: the man himself. Socrates as he was dying was never more intensely, more crucially alive. He was not losing Life, he was gaining it, even though in a few minutes...
...Stewart McDonald, the Administrator of Federal Housing . . . has just returned from London and Paris, where he turned his Scotch soul loose on tweeds. . . . His new little 'café au lait' number is becoming, and brings out the fine, lovely quality of his camellia-like complexion. . . . I'm sending 'Eve's Apple' to certain people, so, Stewie, when you get home tonight, you'll find it waiting...
...Time and the Conways flopped badly in Manhattan; this season his I Have Been Here Before flopped worse. Priestley wrote in an English magazine last week: "I have always felt that there was an inexplicable sense of menace in New York, as if something . . . were plotting against the soul...
...Boys from Syracuse" is a gay and tuneful production, and though the plot, as in Plautus' time, is somewhat innocuous, Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart have poured so much of the soul of modern melody into the show that their position as the foremost song writing team of musical comedy cannot be questioned; "Falling in Love," "Shortest Day in the Year," and especially "This Can't Be Love" are three of the best tunes to have appeared in many months, and the cast renders them to perfection...
...Night had gathered her sable robes over the highest cliffs, and my ship reached through a shoreless sea of silver cloudlets brushed with the glint of the moon and myriad jewels in the dome above. Earth was behind as though my soul itself had left it. Heaven must be like this, I said...