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Mr. and Mrs.Hartley are engaged in frantically revisiting places where they had been happy in the past to try to recapture those feelings…The futility of this search turns to tragedy; their daughter is killed in an accident on a ski tow, a hostage to their ill-fated attempt to reestablish a meaningful relationship by reliving the past. [7]
bed or mattress stuffed with feathers (usually 2 words) [68] (v.) to pamper, to spoil (v.) to require that more workers are hired than are needed, often by agreement with trade unions: quilt, or comforter, stuffed with feathers for use on top of the mattress (but underneath a sheet and the sleeping person) (UK: mattress topper) fender a fire screen
Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven (John Milton, in Paradise Lost) [8] Be yourself; Better the Devil you know (than the Devil you do not) Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all; Better to light one candle than to curse the darkness; Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt ...
If you feel your significant other makes you a better person, let them know. “Healthy relationships don’t require us to conform or change important parts of who we are,” Farina says.
better things: Carrying the connotation of "always better". The motto of the University of Rochester. Meliorare legem meliorare vitam est: To improve the law is to improve life. The motto of the Salem/Roanoke County, Virginia Bar Association. Meliorem lapsa locavit: He has planted one better than the one fallen.
An aesthetic ideal that good art should appear natural rather than contrived. Of medieval origin, but often incorrectly attributed to Ovid. [13] ars gratia artis: art for the sake of art: Translated into Latin from Baudelaire's L'art pour l'art. Motto of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. While symmetrical for the logo of MGM, the better word order in Latin ...
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Vergangenheitsbewältigung describes the attempt to analyze, digest and learn to live with the past, in particular the Holocaust.The focus on learning is much in the spirit of philosopher George Santayana's oft-quoted observation that "those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it".