One's memory plays one queer tricks sometimes, doesn't it?
It playswith man the function of care and training, of cultivation and domestication, with the lower animals and with the products of the soil.
Some sexologists like Kisch and Vaerting believe it does play an important rôle; others, like Forel, believe it plays none.
But nothing is too delicate or too trifling that concerns human happiness, and you will believe me if I tell you that nice underwear or dainty lingerie plays a very important rôle in marital life.
There is born a strong physical attraction which in the man's subconsciousness plays a stronger rôle than honor and duty.
One time you will read or hear that the sex instinct is much more powerfully developed in man than it is in woman; next time you will come across the statement that sex plays a much more important rôle in women than it does in men.
It has a strong and rapidly growing private sector, yet the state still plays a major role in basic industry, banking, transport, and communication.
Saudi Arabia possesses 25% of the world's proven petroleum reserves, ranks as the largest exporter of petroleum, and plays a leading role in OPEC.
The public sector, including publicly-owned enterprises and the municipalities, plays the dominant role in the economy.
The earliest of these miracle-plays in England were performed by the various London Companies.
We'll sing when the music-box plays songs, and you and Dago can dance when it plays waltzes.
Some people didn't like my theories about the stage and the right kind of plays and the right way of acting them; so it amuses them now to hear me lecture and to think to themselves 'How foolish!
Reed's fashion of setting her teeth and getting the ball in spite of opposition; and some of her plays were remarkably effective.
They can't any of them act at all, of course, and their plays are the wildest things, Babe says.
Still her mother was often with her, and her time was divided between theplays of her village-friends and the dreams of romantic incident which early formed the main feature of her inner life.
Here is a clergyman who has edited certain Greek plays admirably; let us make him a bishop.
This personage plays too important a part in the memoirs to be passed over without special notice.
Page 28 "Not till you have answered that question, ma'am' what country hasplays to your royal highness's taste?
We talked over his usual theme--plays and players--and he languished to go to the theatre and see Mrs. Jordan.
Ernest might as well have tried to din the necessary three plays of Euripides into the nearest lamp-post.
She was a very beautiful woman, certainly, and her unfeigned appreciation of his plays and his music was undeniably very flattering to him.
From the game of politics again he won a feverish pleasure, playing for states and cities as a man plays chess, and endeavoring to extract the utmost excitement from the varying turns of skill and chance.
Each has its own biography, and plays a part of consequence in the great drama of the nation.
The fourteenth shows the half-length of a man who plays a lute, above him appears a garden with different trees.
Glue, too, plays one of the principal parts in all veneering and works of marquetry.
Whoever plays Chopin with sledge-hammer fingers will deaden all sense of his poetry, charm and grace.
It was set to music of a declamatory style by Emilio del Cavalieri, the author's collaborator in the pastoral plays that were really embryo operas.
Roswitha, a nun of the Gandersheim cloister, in the tenth century, made the earliest attempt recorded to invest church plays with artistic worth.
Aristotle tells us that it was an essential element in Greek stageplays and their greatest embellishment.
The culture of the times demanded a higher gratification for man's dramatic cravings than either rude religious or secular plays afforded.
Let children come to interrupt their love, she would be his again soon; and what trumpery she made of those women with whom he had played in London as a lonely child plays with dolls.
Mr. Townsend went often to the Vanity because he was searching for talent; he had a theory that all good actresses and all good plays were born to blush unseen.
Geoffrey de Gorham, in early Norman days, taught a school at Dunstable, and wrote one of these plays called St. Catherine.
Obviously, the crèche is an offshoot from the miracle plays and mysteries which had their beginning a full two centuries earlier.
Yet this fallacy playsits part in lending fictitious support to the doctrine that morality is in no wise dependent upon religion.
But dreams are not exclusively, specially, or even usually the domain in which religion plays a part.
Let us now take a brief glance at the Symbolical Tree of Life, which plays so important a part in the Simonian Gnôsis.
We have evidently here a version of the great Sophia-mythus, which plays so important a part in all Gnostic systems.
In speaking of such allegories and tracing the correspondences between certain symbologies and the natural facts of embryology, Simon speaks of the "cave" which plays so important a part in so many religious allegories.
And to think that his son plays the fiddle in a sanded tavern for ragged Jack tars to dance with their Polls and Molls.
Some might think it cowardly to run away: but if an enemy plays dishonest tricks and underhand practices, there is no better way, perhaps, than to run away.
He plays the fiddle at some wretched gardens I believe.
He plays like this hero with a thirst that cannot be assuaged.
Here we had plays worth seeing and concerts worth hearing.
We had two or three other plays in the shop, that season, in one of which my father took a small part.
The five plays contained in this volume are here printed in the order in which they occur in the Folios.
This alone, of all the plays contained in the present volume, is divided into scenes in the Folio.
One of themplays half-back or short-stop, or something.
It was the manner in which English people, in plays and stories, addressed their butler or coachman.
I remember several successful plays with romantic Indians in the lead.
Through thee is martial glory lost, through thee The trade of arms became a worthless art: And at such ebb are worth and chivalry, That the base often plays the better part.
III Let him lament, who plays a slavish part, Whom two bright eyes and lovely tresses please: Beneath which beauties lurks a wanton heart With little that is pure, and much of lees.
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