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“I have watched him, too, directing a scene, with exactly that same self-forgetting love and admiration in his face you see I the face of a mother watching her -- unequaled -- child.”
Books on Movies Jacqueline T Lynch 2009
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“I have watched him, too, directing a scene, with exactly that same self-forgetting love and admiration in his face you see I the face of a mother watching her -- unequaled -- child.”
Archive 2009-06-01 Jacqueline T Lynch 2009
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The stanza's concluding couplet, however, with its assertion that "A heavy weight of hours has chained and bowed/One too like thee: tameless, and swift, and proud" (55-56), signals that the process of self-forgetting is not complete.
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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What Byron's major characters seek yet achieve not is a form of self-forgetting affiliated with
Enlightenment East and West: An Introduction to Romanticism and Buddhism 2007
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In stanza 4, however, Shelley commences the process of self-forgetting, longing first to be a
Shelley's Golden Wind: Zen Harmonics in _A Defence of Poetry_ and 'Ode to the WestWind' 2007
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"A good preacher is self-forgetting," insists Anglican John R.W. Stott, former chaplain to the Queen of England and the only non-American on the Baylor list.
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Divorced from our origins, we've fallen into the sleep of self-forgetting.
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A gift so radical that it could mean a self-forgetting, deeply costly and totally transforming.
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This great unknown artist belonged to the kindly class of the self-forgetting, who give their time and their soul to others, just as they leave their gloves on every table and their umbrella at all doors.
A Daughter of Eve 2007
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Thus it is part of the theology of the cross that is evolving throughout the later chapters of John, the mapping out of a revelation of glory through self-forgetting and self-offering.
'The Bible Today: Reading & Hearing', The Larkin-Stuart Lecture 2007
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