... -- and I'm not proud of it. I saw fear in his eyes that for some time nourished my pride, but made my love suffer. We became distant. Respectful of each other -- the kind of respect brought by fear -- however distant. But God is kind: after my college graduation, he invited me to dinner, and there I had my chance to apologize. He dismissed it, almost ... to be proven wrong. Yesterday, l learned a lot from Papa than in my 21 years with him. Yesterday, on my 22nd birthday, he was born in me again. Never quite the distant father I made of him. Never quite the angry man who loved me much. T...

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... her adventures in saving animals and ecotage. Jim isn't quite ready for the ride, but he is in for one. Jim is attracted to Alena's passion. She is emphatic and militant about her causes and compared to Jim's humdrum attitude, this is eye awakening. Her enthusiasm seems to wake him up and turn him on inside and out. We can tell ... ...

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... and love life. Since both of the worlds are important for one individual, it would be necessary not to lean towards one side but staying on the middle line. Having a distant lover helps a lot in achieving the best of both worlds. Secondly, being far away from one another makes the time of face to face encounters seem to be more precious ... is only for big dreamers. In other words it seems like an impossible thing to him. The article brings up all the negative sides of a relationship when two parties are distant from one another. Most straightforwardly, he asserts a relationship cannot ...

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... love his wife, "he was afraid of her and disliked being at home."" (Chekhov 535) It seems clear that he relationship between Dmitri and his wife has become routine and distant. He describes her as how one would describe his/her mother - in - law. "She was a tall, black-browed woman, erect, dignified, austere, and, as she liked to describer herself, a thinking ... because he is unable to understand his wife, they have a fight. It is the first of many fights. Just as in "The Lady with the Dog-, they become cold and distant to each other. Eventually, his wife has a male companion and Pozdn...

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... girl with hidden inner desires that would subtly seep through into her everyday life and decisions. Jane's anger and resentment toward those that have harmed her, causes her to be distant and wary of new places and people. However she is also impulsive, spirited, and has a great desire to be loved. For those who treat her well, she rewards them by ... I had felt what is was to be loved; but, like him, I had now put love out of the question, and thought only of duty" Jane Eyre throughout the novel remains distant and unsure, always hiding her true feelings but never submitting entirely t...

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... it would be difficult for her to love the man that slew her husband, women are unstable in their emotions and can easily learn to forget lost love. The most blatant example of example of mysogyny occurs when Laudine is still resisting Yvain, when she is described as having "a foolish quality which other women also have...namely, that they refuse the ... ...

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... her wit. Both Beatrice and Benedick are however prone to losing their tempers, in the first scene their conflict starts off as clever and snide insinuation but soon degenerates to blatant, bad tempered castigation. This goes against our suspicions of a relationship forming between them and may have been Shakespeare's way of not making things too predictable. Both Benedick and Beatrice talk ... ...

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... outsider and goes on to say that "Antonio is an outsider because he is an unconscious homosexual in a predominantly, and indeed blatantly, heterosexual society." The trial scene as such shows blatant anti-Semitism for supporting one and not the other. In my opinion, shylock stood for everything that was wrong with Elizabethan society, their views and their morals. The character of ... ...

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... to get to the next level. My excitement for this game is so astounding that I just can't help but to work hard daily to get the opportunity to go where I'm distant to go. Going out to that beautiful field that the have put there for us players isn't just a given. You have to work for it. I love working for everything I have ... ...

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... . I forgave him then we began working towards trusting each other. He was becoming the man I fell in love with again, but nothing lasts forever. A few months later I got the same distant attitude. I was tired after a certain point I was tired of arguing and fighting for us and giving him my all when all I felt I had was a pocketful of his love, I told him ... ...

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... in-box and disappear, but stay with me, under my bed, waiting to be reread" (Simpson). Simpson is proving the point on how exposing love to one another, when distant, has to be something a person can cherish and hold on to or it may not work out in the long run. Although the quick delivery has its perks, technology took ... ...

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... at a very early age ostracize her. She struggles to feel accepted by anyone other than a very select few. While she is incredibly close with her father, she has an incredibly distant relationship, it one at all, with her mother. Because her mother always perceives her as queer she is not shown tenderness of warmth by Anna, which she so desperately craves ... ...

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... soon hears she had left. Henry again boards a train and finally meets up with Catherine where they begin to run, now together. Now together in Switzerland the war far and distant out of their lives, now the only obstacle is Catherine's pregnancy. Her labor is an involved one, and eventually cannot be done naturally. The baby was strangled by its umbilical ... ...

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... response to a bird who claims to be satisfied with his spiritual state, the hoopoe tells the bird, "hell's pride has filled your soul; lost in self-love, you dread our distant goal. Your arrogance deceives you, and you stray further and further from the spirit's Way." Although it is difficult to set aside one's pride in the Self it is extremely ... ...

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... biological family having a closer relationship than that of a biological one. However, the author now shows this point through a different view. We see from this story how a biological family has a very distant relationship, unlike the non biological families I have mentioned thus far. He starts by saying "I saw the Gateses all together on only two occasions in my childhood, and those were my ... ...

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... admire him and serve him - (Horney 191) still holds true today, regardless of women's various achievements. Until we can achieve equality amongst the sexes, our love lives will remain "a very distant state of affairs with a decidedly impersonal character, wholly regulated by traditional customs and prejudices, the prototype of every conventional marriage."" (Jung 181...

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... other women, we feel that she does not entirely fit among them. Her love to Robert Lebrun is unconscious until the day the man leaves for Mexico. " the more geographically distant he is, the more he compels her emotions."" Realizing her feelings is also a kind of awakening for her; although it comes too late, it starts an irreversible process in Edna ... ...

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... at a very early age ostracize her. She struggles to feel accepted by anyone other than a very select few. While she is incredibly close with her father, she has an incredibly distant relationship, it one at all, with her mother. Because her mother always perceives her as queer she is not shown tenderness of warmth by Anna, which she so desperately craves ... ...

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... and what is madness and where is the line between the two. This report explains this in scientific language. The scientific language also makes Parry seem less threatening and more distant. Throughout the novel Joe used scientific language as a consoling factor to distance himself from emotion. The first appendix reflects this. By the time the first appendix is over the reader ... ...

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... dies leaving his money to his first wife's son , his second wife and daughters are left with little money and no permanent home. The Dashwood's are invited to stay with distant relatives, Elinor is sad to leave because she has become closely attached to Mr. Ferras, however once she moves she meets many other men, Marianne falls for John Willoughby who ... ...

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... ? by E.M. Forster is an early example of apocalyptic fiction that shows humanity trapped by technology. It was written in the early 20th century. "The Machine Stops" is set in the distant future, when mankind has come to depend on a worldwide Machine for food, housing, communications and medical care. In return, humanity has abandoned the earth's surface for a life of isolation and ... ...

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... people to possible look out for Scobie while she's gone. She even says, "you"ll have to start making acquaintances" (99). She meets one man named Wilson who is actually a distant co-worker of Scobie stationed temporarily in Freetown; but there was something unique about Wilson and Louise can easily identify it. It's that "He's too romantic. He tells lies" (99 ... ...

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... America (perhaps Saskatchewan). The starkness of the land is described early in the story: cattered across the face of so vast and bleak a wilderness it was difficult to conceive [the distant farmsteads] as a testimony of human hardihood and endurance. ...

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... I seem tame'. Whoso List to hunt' is a love poem in a very traditional sense, full of melancholic longing, which I believe may appear slightly adolescent to a modern reader. It shows love in a distant, regretful way, loving a woman from afar rather than physically. In many ways it almost seems to be a platonic love, a meeting of minds rather than a sexual attraction. This interpretation may be ... ...

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... a house. This home, was everything that Oliver knew as a child, because everything he ever needed as a child was there for him. There were so many extra rooms in the house, distant relatives, or just travelers would often stay in there. At one point, he took over one of the many rooms that was not being used and turned it into a personal ... ...

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