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Searched for phrasing (234 results found)

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  • ... first edition of Op. 22 and Mr. Liegler; a few words about Benz: his efforts are in vain, since he only thrashes out phrases; I achieve nothing because I am objective, God has reserved eternal breath for himself. And yet: I would rather be Schenker than ...

  • 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 ...

  • Diary entry for 1918-12-13

    ... keineswegs restlos Dollarmenschen; angelsächsisch: ideale Phrase mit dem Vorteil des Landes in Einklang zu bringen. Alice Schalek, Amerika und Australien. Bürgerliche und soziale Demokratie (Feuilleton), in: Neue Freie Presse, No. 19506, December 13, 1918 ...

  • Diary entry for 1919-02-15

    ... . 38, February 15, 1919, 5th year, p. 2. February 15, 1919. Neue freie Presse: the first address by Count Rantzau; not without pride; many fortunate turns of phrase, thoughtful, as if spoken; opposed to English shopkeeper politics! Foch's motto: "I ...

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