ellauri046.html on line 274: Keywords: academia; actors; assistant professors; banquets; baptism; behavioral change; clergy; Constantin Constantius; contradiction; costumes; day laborers; disciples; earnestness; ethical existence; existence; finishing; freedom; Godthaab; Hegelian philosophy; horses; incommensurability; inwardness; lifelong tasks; love; male vulnerability; misunderstanding; money; Nicolaus Notabene; Philosophical Fragments; pleasure; professors; Quidam; Repetition; Socrates; suffering; talkativeness.
ellauri088.html on line 599: In addition, here’s a much earlier spoof of German lieder, from the British comic novel “Three Men in a Boat,” published in 1889. I think it shows just how pervasive and long-standing is the English-speaker’s resistance to the rarefied world of the German art-song. The excerpt is also very silly and probably tells you at least as much about British anti-intellectualism and complacency as it does about German over-earnestness.
ellauri131.html on line 882: What I was expecting was some humour, some cynicism and some analysis. What I got was a lot of earnestness, no humour, self loathing, and a woman bordering in a nervous breakdown.
ellauri171.html on line 1069: A really dumb, derivative rip-off, slovenly constructed and played with the sort of ludicrous earnestness that just misses being bad enough to qualify as high camp.
ellauri191.html on line 996: "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times"
ellauri277.html on line 264: Gibran has generally been dismissed as sentimental and mawkishly [imelän] mystical. Nevertheless, his works are widely read and are regarded as serious literature by people who do not often read such literature. The unconventional beauty of his language and the moral earnestness of his ideas allow him to speak to a broad audience as only a handful of other twentieth-century American poets have. The sad fact is that a large majority of these monkeys are sentimental and mawkishly mystical.
ellauri302.html on line 64: Yet the essentially (though not conventionally) moral earnestness of both Shaw and Ash brings the circles of their themes in a sense tangent to each other. neither falls prey to that sentimentalization of the prostitute which Dumas helped so much to effect and which Augier strove to combat, nor the delusion of the conservative, conventional horror before an institution for the perpetuation of which conservatism and conventionalism are much to blame. Its all just business as usual. Pecunia non olet.
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