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Searched for phrase in Diaries (121 results found)

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  • Diary entry for 1918-12-30

    ... will soon be seen how much these phrases are worth in dollars!). The future relationships of France to Germany: typically French! Cachin extols President Wilson and insists that "these thoughts should be engraved on the Conference of Versailles"; "the ...

  • Diary entry for 1924-06-26

    ... must write that down! And in so doing succeeds in finding the fine phrase: "aristocracy of shame." Over coffee, he does not exactly express himself too aptly and seems still not to understand my role correctly; he actually goes so far as to maintain ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-05-10

    ... Sitte, Treue, Tiefe u. Tüchtigkeit dahingelebte Poesie. Dagegen ist das angeblich poetischere Leben der Franzosen, Italiener, Engländer u. s. w. weil nur phrasenergefüllte nüchternste Lüge. Phrase ist ja noch keine Poesie! Mischungen in Angriff genommen ...

  • Diary entry for 1912-09-17

    ... sympathy out of incompetence may be explained incidentally if one imagines a doctor who, let us say, comforts a patient who is suffering from laryngitis with the phrase: "You have such beautiful feet!" Never does sympathy hit the crux of the distress; it ...

  • Diary entry for 1914-09-11

    ... latest issue of Die Musik, I am struck by a review by Dr. Neufeld of Kretzschmar's concert guide, in which the reviewer, following in my footsteps, expresses criticism of Kretzschmar's vacuous phrases. Admittedly, in accordance with the English practice ...

  • Diary entry for 1915-06-17

    ... contemporaries and do not have the ability to form an image of immortality from the master's behavior and facial expressions, or from his turns of phrase. – As far as the last point was concerned, my host was in agreement in that he went even further by claiming ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-06-26

    ... embarrassment is being shown about Reger! For as long as he lived, banal people craved playing a role at least as partisans. Now that he is dead, the motive of personal attachment is gone, and all partisanship has immediately disintegrated into empty phrases ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-09-05

    ... mehr für Frankreich u. England Sympathien hegt. Würde man es aber den Dänen ins Gesicht sagen, dasß das, was sie wünschen, im Grunde nichts anderes ist sei, als französische Phrase u. englische Heuchelei, daß sie, mit anderen Worten, die deutsche ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-10-25

    ... englischen Diplomatie vermochte er sich gar nicht zu erinnern. So alltäglich die Phrase solche Erfahrung auch ist, wirkt sie in so gewaltiger Dimensionierung u. angesichts so ungeheuer tragischer Begebenheiten dennoch wie die Offenbarung einer gar neuen Seite ...

  • Diary entry for 1916-12-24

    ... stringent politics of imprisonment against criminal merchants would lead the world to its goal more quickly than any sort of trade politics. Mrs. Milly Mendl asked me once in the coffee house, when I used a turn of phrase that pleased her: "Did you just make ...

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