Ben Zimmer on real
Ben Zimmer6 quotes“Hillary Clinton has been portrayed as robotic, someone who is trying to approximate real human emotion.”
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Weaponization of a candidate’s words against him or her is something we’re seeing a lot. The term Obamacare was used against Obama in a pejorative way, but Obama again reclaimed it.
Ben ZimmerBen Zimmer Sometimes people are primed to hear in a certain way. When a word like braggadocious suddenly appears, it’s like, ‘What, is he just making that up?’
Ben ZimmerBen Zimmer When words come out of politician’s mouth that are linguistically incorrect, people see it reflecting their intelligence. Sarah Palin was called out for “refudiate,” which seemed to combine refute and repudiate. One favourite Bushism was “misunderestimate.”
Ben ZimmerBen Zimmer Donald Trump speaks extemporaneously, often through stream of consciousness, where it doesn’t seem to follow a trajectory.
Ben ZimmerBen Zimmer Donald Trump himself has an idiosyncratic speaking style that relies on simple words and phrases, which worked for him in the primaries but may be coming up short for him now.
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They bleed not in the mouth but through their ink – indelible and dark.
Juana GarciaJuana Garcia I would rather shoot my arrows than keep them in my bow, I would rather risk it all than risk nothing at all.
ShamaShama I wish I knew then all of the things I know now that I am enough.
TMCTMC I feel like I’m on fire, fighting for a moment on respite – I’m not placing bets.
M.K. StandbyM.K. Standby I found him in all the chaos, and that was when my world started making sense again.
MoomerMoomer The judgement that people cast on you for how you do or do not appear is nothing more than just a projection of their own wounds.
Taj AroraTaj Arora Be grateful for what you have now, even if it’s not everything you wanted.
Sonia SabnisSonia Sabnis It seems strange how we look in the same mirror, yet what stares back, is so painfully different.
Chris AllchinChris Allchin
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A real dog, beloved and therefore pampered by his mistress, is a lamentable spectacle. He suffers from fatty degeneration of his moral being.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier real letter-writing … is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being has of another.
Agnes RepplierAgnes Repplier I draw strength from spirit, from the divine light. I draw strength from the love my sister and I have for each other, from my nieces,
Agapi StassinopoulosAgapi Stassinopoulos It is only on these principles that we will be able to establish (“pourront être édifiées”, Fr.) the real basis of morality.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware (or conscious) of their true (or real) mission, would want to get on (or agree) to abolish every politics aiming at (“visant à”, Fr.) expansion or hegemony.
Afrikan SpirAfrikan Spir The conventional definition of management is getting work done through people, but real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan AbediAgha Hasan Abedi Real management is developing people through work.
Agha Hasan AbediAgha Hasan Abedi The Muslim world, with its history and cultures, and indeed its different interpretations of Islam, is still little known in the West.
Aga Khan IVAga Khan IV