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The most delicate art is the art of erasure: what we do to forget is as elusory as what we do to remember. newest oldest profile the girl extras butterfly thanks

bemymemory Diary Entry bemymemory 2006

She does not elaborate on how she is similar to the Czech writer who is famous for his political commentary and elusory style.

Archive 2006-06-01 Mac 2006

At every one of them, they told us that, no, I'm sorry, the city is completely closed off, or the road is severely damaged or various other elusory answers.

CNN Transcript Sep 7, 2005 2005

His oeuvre resembles a series of projects, with each one more or less disavowing the others but all involving a new attempt to come to grips with an elusory reality.

Nobelprize.org: Nobel Prize for Literature 1998 - Press Release 1998

Even more important than this elusory internal mortification was the external or environmental mortification which, among the Russian socialists, subsequently came to constitute the substratum of their activities, and which Bakunin described as "complete immersion in the life of the people."

Political Parties; a Sociological Study of the Oligarchical Tendencies of Modern Democracy 1916

The Boer ultimatum, by making it impossible for the British Government to be any longer cajoled into an elusory settlement by Boer diplomacy, had relieved Lord Milner of a load of anxiety, and closed a period of unparalleled physical and mental strain.

Lord Milner's Work in South Africa From its Commencement in 1897 to the Peace of Vereeniging in 1902 1898

A third time he approached in the same manner, when the Christian knight, desirous to terminate this elusory warfare, in which he might at length have been worn out by the activity of his foeman, suddenly seized the mace which hung at his saddlebow, and, with a strong hand and unerring aim, hurled it against the head of the Emir, for such and not less his enemy appeared.

The Talisman 1894

Malice and heartburning were out of the question with a lissom, winsome, witching fairy like this, who played with her life as a child does with soap-bubbles, and who was as elusory and irresponsible as a summer-day rainbow.

Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places Archibald Forbes 1869

The Nobel Foundation said in 1998 the prize was given to Saramago "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."

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The Nobel Foundation said in 1998 the prize was given to Saramago "who with parables sustained by imagination, compassion and irony continually enables us once again to apprehend an elusory reality."

canada.com Top Stories 2010