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Toppling the Arab Berlin WallTens of millions of Arabs witnessed the toppling of Saddam Hussein last spring, and saw in his fall
reflections
of their own situation.
They are idealized
reflections
of the self.
Most of the critiques are at best mediocre; they strike me less as serious acts of engaged intellect than
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of the political and economic power of a rising plutocracy.
The iconoclastic British historian A. J. P. Taylor quipped that laments about the decline of Britain were really generalized
reflections
of Oxford academics’ view of the “servant problem.”
Early in Wade’s second term, criticism of his increasing “super-presidentialism” and efforts to promote his son as his successor led opposition and civil-society groups in 2008-2009 to organize a series of
reflections
on political reform, known as the Assises Nationales.
While citizens will continue to love their country, nationalism should not be the starting point of our
reflections
on governance.
Reflections
on Achieving the Global Education GoalsNEW YORK – Throughout my life, I have seen the power of education.
Europe Must Avoid Self-Fulfilling PessimismMADRID – Over the last decade, the requisite year-end
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and predictions have become increasingly bleak.
Let me therefore conclude as I began, with the wise
reflections
of Maalouf.
My own period of home detention has produced the following reflections, which I add with some diffidence to the chorus of expert voices.
His
reflections
were most complex and varied.
In these
reflections
time passed until the teacher arrived.
This discovery, which suddenly explained to her those hitherto incomprehensible families where there were only one or two children, awoke in her so many thoughts,
reflections
and contradictory feelings that she could say nothing, and only stared at Anna with wide-open eyes full of astonishment.
But there was nothing of interest there, and she continued her
reflections.
Now it was not as it used to be with him when he. had invented ways of tranquillizing himself and had been obliged to recapitulate the whole train of
reflections
in order to arrive at the feeling.
The hall was only lighted by this stove, from which sanguine
reflections
danced along the greasy woodwork up to the ceiling, stained with black dust.
In the meanwhile, M. Grégoire repeated aloud the
reflections
inspired by the sight of these starving ones.
He then noticed that he was ascending the pit-bank, his head filled with these
reflections.
Each of them seemed to be continuing his own reflections, as though they were far away from each other.
They continued their
reflections
in silence, counting the days and days that a workman would take to penetrate such a block.
The outcome: an immense vista of
reflections
that penetrated every liquid molecule.
I also observed some wonderful snappers belonging to the order Lutianida, sacred fish for the Greeks, who claimed they could drive off sea monsters from the waters they frequent; their Greek name anthias means "flower," and they live up to it in the play of their colors and in those fleeting
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that turn their dorsal fins into watered silk; their hues are confined to a gamut of reds, from the pallor of pink to the glow of ruby.
Finally, adorned with emerald ribbons and dressed in velvet and silk, golden angelfish passed before our eyes like courtiers in the paintings of Veronese; spurred gilthead stole by with their swift thoracic fins; thread herring fifteen inches long were wrapped in their phosphorescent glimmers; gray mullet thrashed the sea with their big fleshy tails; red salmon seemed to mow the waves with their slicing pectorals; and silver moonfish, worthy of their name, rose on the horizon of the waters like the whitish
reflections
of many moons.
Charles's mother came to see them from time to time, but after a few days the daughter-in-law seemed to put her own edge on her, and then, like two knives, they scarified him with their
reflections
and observations.
She had a funeral picture made with the hair of the deceased, and, in a letter sent to the Bertaux full of sad
reflections
on life, she asked to be buried later on in the same grave.
Homais by this hour knew it almost by heart, and he repeated it from end to end, with the
reflections
of the penny-a-liners, and all the stories of individual catastrophes that had occurred in France or abroad.
In fact, Rodolphe, after many reflections, had decided to set out for Rouen.
Thus consider the greater part of Voltaire's tragedies; they are cleverly strewn with philosophical reflections, that made them a vast school of morals and diplomacy for the people."
But men too had had their trials, and the conversation went off into certain philosophical
reflections.
But the
reflections
of the paintings, broken by the marble rim, were continued farther on upon the flag-stones, like a many-coloured carpet.
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