Intensest love and intensest hate can, at the same moment, intertwine their fibres in inextricable blending.
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His language was strikingly beautiful, and his tones musical with intensest feeling.
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It expressed, plainer than words could do, the intensest anguish at having made himself the instrument of thwarting his own revenge.
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I walked slowly, for I was almost exhausted, as well as lame, and I felt the intensest wretchedness for the horrible death of little Weena.
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Singular as it may appear, the sufferer had now contracted a sort of affection for his tormentor, mingled, however, with the intensest loathing and horror.
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Why should I rush for help to a new course, when I was only suffering from the consequences of a deed which had been the act of my intensest will?
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It is a sin you must never commit again. You closed a most > eloquent description, by which you had keyed your audience up to a pitch of > the intensest interest, with a piece of atrocious anti-climax which > nullified all the really fine effect you had produced. Tuolumne County. Click on historical marker and interior view.
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"Passionate love" is "the intensest thing in life"; "It is the essential fact of love as I conceive it, that it breaks down the boundaries of self."H.G. Wells, First and Last Things, IV, §2. The concluding sentence of First and Last Things is: "In the ultimate I know, though I cannot prove my knowledge in any way whatever, that everything is right and all things mine."H.G. Wells, First and Last Things, IV, §6.
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86 More significantly, according to Rowe, Larkin's invention of Coleman was the catalyst which broke the writing block that had afflicted him for most of his Oxford years.Rowe (2000), p. 80 The few months of her creative life in 1943 were, Larkin later acknowledged, the prelude to "the intensest time of my life"; in the three subsequent years his poetry collection The North Ship and his novels Jill and A Girl in Winter were published. The complete Coleman material, in a collection edited by James Booth, was finally published in 2002.
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Even more impressive, however, was the response to ″strong mental emotion″: ″The cure of asthma by violent emotion is more sudden and complete than by any other remedy whatever; indeed, I know few things more striking and curious in the whole history of therapeutics. ... The cure ... takes no time; it is instantaneous, the intensest paroxysm ceases on the instant.″ ″Cure″ due to release of adrenaline from the adrenals is the retrospective interpretation. At the same time that Salter unwittingly made use of the adrenal medulla, the French physician Alfred Vulpian found that there was something unique about it: material scraped from it coloured green when ferric chloride was added.
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In addition to her ballet memoir, Fisher is the author of two volumes on literature: Wallace Stevens: The Intensest Rendezvous (University Press of Virginia, 1990, ) and Noble Numbers, Subtle Words: The Art of Mathematics in the Science of Storytelling (Fairleigh Dickinson & Associated University Presses, 1997, ). Noble Numbers, Subtle Words was nominated for a Phi Beta Kappa Award in Science, and is an exploration of number, geometry, and abstract mathematical concepts in works of authors including Shakespeare, Milton, Henry James, Jorge Luís Borges, and Toni Morrison. Stanley Cavell, then a professor of philosophy at Harvard, called the study "distinguished", and Charles Altieri, then at the University of California, Berkeley, described it as "an utterly brilliant book".
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But this is quite compatible with a full appreciation of the intrinsic superiority of the higher." Mill says that this appeal to those who have experienced the relevant pleasures is no different from what must happen when assessing the quantity of pleasure, for there is no other way of measuring "the acutest of two pains, or the intensest of two pleasurable sensations." "It is indisputable that the being whose capacities of enjoyment are low, has the greatest chance of having them fully satisfied; and a highly-endowed being will always feel that any happiness which he can look for, as the world is constitute, is imperfect."John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, Chapter 2 Mill also thinks that "intellectual pursuits have value out of proportion to the amount of contentment or pleasure (the mental state) that they produce.
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