All laughter is a muscular rigidity spasmodically relieved by involuntary twitching.
Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.
Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved.
I'm proud of myself. I'm a relieved, happy girl.
I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and function achieved which a cow enjoys on giving milk.
How is it that a person could be so relieved and so disappointed, both at the same time.
"The suspect had experienced a ballistic interlude earlier in the evening," Miss Pao said, "regrettably not filmed, and relieved himself of excess velocity by means of an ablative technique. "
The root of compassion is not empathy; that is kindness. Kindness is great, but it is not the ultimate compassion. Ultimate compassion relieves the suffering that comes from separateness. The suffering that comes from separateness is relieved only when you are fully present with another person, not when you are separately present.
The Navy has a custom-if a ship runs aground, the captain is relieved regardless of who is responsible. That's how Abu Ghraib should be handled.
Bella. " Edward's voice was right beside me, relieved now. "Can you hear me?" "No," I groaned. "Go away.
I didn't want to wake up. I was having a much better time asleep. And that's really sad. It was almost like a reverse nightmare, like when you wake up from a nightmare you're so relieved. I woke up into a nightmare.
I slightly feel, having written Paraguay and Newfoundland - and both of them have developed eccentricities through isolation - I am quite relieved to be back in France and Germany, and I want people to enjoy these books for the writing and not because they feel they can laugh - some will laugh - at these eccentric places, that's not what I intend.
Do I learn through dark providences, or simply seem relieved when they are over?
Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all.
The stock market was relieved that the Fed didn't sound tougher, and the stock market seems to figure that everything they like about Donald Trump will come true, and everything they're afraid of about Donald Trump will not come true.
The burden of happiness can only be relieved by the balm of suffering.
Some widowers are bereaved -- others, relieved.
The deal is that women have entered the workforce, but they have not been relieved of the domestic responsibilities.
I learned to slip back and forth between my black and white worlds. One of those tricks I had learned: People were satisfied so long as you were courteous and smiled and made no sudden moves. They were more than satisfied; they were relieved -- such a pleasant surprise to find a well-mannered young black man who didn't seem angry all the time.
The pause makes you think the song will end. And then the song isn't really over, so you're relieved. But then the song does actually end, because every song ends, obviously, and THAT. TIME. THE. END. IS. FOR. REAL.
