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Emphatic" -- Jane Austen
Emphatic and reiterated assertion, especially during childhood, produces in most people a belief so firm as to have a hold even over the unconscious. -- Bertrand Russell
I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.' -- Boyle Roche
When lying, be emphatic and indignant, thus behaving like your children. -- William Feather
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. -- Jonathan Raban
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule. -- Robert W. Welch, Jr.
When it comes to social issues, Republicans don't just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why. -- Gary Bauer
It's the experts in adolescent development who wax most emphatic about the value of family meals, for it's in the teenage years that this daily investment pays some of its biggest dividends. -- Nancy Gibbs
I would argue that one of the issues which the public should be much more emphatic about with all politicians... is patronage, appointing people to high positions because they supported your campaign or helped you raise money. -- John Hickenlooper
Our two party platforms were emphatic about Jerusalem being the capital of Israel. For the Obama administration to remove this language from the Democratic Party platform drives a wedge into one of the few issues that our two parties agreed on. -- Paul Ryan
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word. -- F. L. Lucas
I am, emphatically. Mental illness triggered by xperimental error." -- David Mitchell
I answer in the affirmative with an emphatic 'No.'" -- Boyle Roche
If it is thus, I ask emphatically whence comes this thusness." -- James Joyce
Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted." -- Jonathan Raban
It is emphatically the province and duty of the Judicial Department to say what the law is." -- John Marshall
The men who made the joke saw something deep which they could not express except by something silly and emphatic." -- G.K. Chesterton
I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one." -- J. D. Salinger
Academics love the semicolon; their hankering after logic demands a division which is more emphatic than a comma, but not quite as absolute a demarcation as a full stop." -- Victor Klemperer
In the Constitution of the American Republic there was a deliberate and very extensive and emphatic division of governmental power for the very purpose of preventing unbridled majority rule." -- Robert W. Welch Jr.
Regarding comments attributed to me in the Los Angeles Times - allegedly made on a bus trip from Germany to Holland in 1998 - I emphatically denounce such comments as false." -- Paul Crouch
The Bible should be taught, but emphatically not as reality. It is fiction, myth, poetry, anything but reality. As such it needs to be taught because it underlies so much of our literature and our culture." -- Richard Dawkins
Consistent with the liberal views of the Enlightenment, Leibniz was an optimist with respect to human reasoning and scientific progress. Although he was a great reader and admirer of Spinoza, Leibniz, being a confirmed deist, rejected emphatically Spinoza's pantheism." -- Shelby D. Hunt
All I need to understand is the unwritten law of warriors," he said firmlyAnd women and children are never sent to do our work without our protection." He pointed to the trees, emphaticallyThat's the language I share with them." -- Melina Marchetta
And I hereby distinctly and emphatically declare that I consider myself, and earnestly desire to be considered by others, as utterly divested, now and during the rest of my life, of any such rights, the barbarous relics of a feudal, despotic system." -- Robert Dale Owen
The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word." -- F. L. Lucas
I let out a string of curses that would put even the boy's locker room to shame, ending with an emphatic kick to the mailbox post.And the worst part was of coure it wasn't there yet. My weird nerves all day were pointless." -- Kiersten White
But it was hard to keep his hands still. He could almost feel them twitching emphatically with his strong desire to reach out and stroke the dog's head. He had such a terrible yearning to love something again, and the dog was such a beautiful ugly dog." -- Richard Matheson
Some writers need to sink in order to feel what their characters feel; in order to write their characters with the truest feeling possible. Those closest to those writers end up feeling the effects of that process. It takes a strong person to be with an emphatic writer." -- Lori Goodwin
I object," said the man emphatically. He stopped work again and studied Elnora. Even the watching mother could not blame him. Against the embankment, in the shade of the bridge Elnora's bright head, and her lavender dress made a picture worthy of much contemplation.I object!" repeated the man." -- Gene Stratton Porter
Possibly when the professor insisted a little too emphatically upon the inferiority of women, he was concerned not with their inferiority, but with his own superiority. That was what he was protecting rather hot-headedly and with too much emphasis, because it was a jewel to him of the rarest price." -- Virginia Woolf
But even when the principle of equal treatment was betrayed, American leaders in every era have emphatically affirmed it, not so much out of hypocrisy as out of aspiration. Indeed, for those who were devoted to justice, the persistence of inequality was precisely what made equality before the law so imperative." -- Glenn Greenwald
That was how things were back then. Anything that grew took its time growing, and anything that perished took a long time to be forgotten. But everything that had once existed left its traces, and people lived on memories just as they now live on the ability to forget quickly and emphatically." -- Joseph Roth
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - relief or despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking - 'wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant!" -- Gareth Roberts
You just say it. That's how you say something that's hard. You put one foot in front of the other. You take it step by step. You say the words. There is no magic formula. There is no secret sauce. But there are words," she says emphatically, as if she's delivering an impassioned speech." -- Lauren Blakely
Whatever else humanism is, it is emphatically not a movement towards freedom and expansion. It is the impulse of men who feel themselves simple, rustic, and immature, towards sophistication, urbanity, and ripeness. In a word, it is the most complete opposite we can find to the Romantic desire for the primitive and the spontaneous." -- C. S. Lewis
But I don't want to write my own fiction,' Cath said, as emphatically as she could. 'I don't want to write my own characters or my own worlds -- I don't care about them. . . . I'd rather pour myself into a world I love and understand than try to make something up out of nothing." -- Rainbow Rowell
What can be the meaning of that emphatic exclamation?" cried heDo you consider the forms of introduction, and the stress that is laid on them, as nonsense? I cannot quite agree with you there. What say you, Mary? For you are a young lady of deep reflection, I know, and read great books and make extracts." -- Jane Austen
Our struggle is--isn't it?--to achieve and retain faith on a lower level. To believe that there is a Listener at all. For as the situation grows more and more desperate, the grisly fears intrude. Are we only talking to ourselves in an empty universe? The silence is often so emphatic. And we have prayed so much already" -- C. S. Lewis
Every man has a weakness," he patiently explainedI'll find theirs, I promise you.""Every man?""Yes," he answered emphatically.His hand moved to the back of her neck. Twisting her curls around his fist, he jerked her head back. His face loomed over hers, his breath warm and sweet as he stared down into her eyes."What is your weakness, Brodick?" she asked."You." -- Julie Garwood
...but I do very emphatically believe there is an enormous amount of the androgynous in any all-or-nothing prose writer, or even a would-be one. I think that if he titters at male writers who wear invisible skirts he does so at his eternal peril. I'll say no more on the subject. This is precisely the sort of confidence that can be easily and juicily Abused." -- J. D. Salinger
Philosophy ... must not bargain away anything of the emphatic concept of truth. -- Theodor Adorno
It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side. -- Charles Dudley Warner
Sin is not wrong doing, it is wrong BEING, deliberate and emphatic independence of God. -- Oswald Chambers
At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to have a more pleasant,cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, emphatic, consistent, loving parent. -- Stephen Covey
How flat all sounds are at the seaside, flat and yet emphatic, like the sound of gunshots heard at a distance. -- John Banville
When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic Yes! and vigorously say No! to the rest, extraordinary results become possible. -- Gary W. Keller
Did bin Laden act alone, through his own al-Qaida network, in launching the attacks? About that I'm far more certain and emphatic: no. -- Robert Baer
It is satisfying following such an emphatic victory over the current unbeaten champion (Lucian Bute) to know that there's a lot of people eating humble pie. -- Carl Froch
Distaste sounds more emphatic when expressed as moral disapproval. With most of us the moral counterblast is nothing more than the angry rendering of a yawn. -- Frank Moore Colby
When it comes to social issues, Republicans dont just need to be more empathetic. They also need to be more emphatic in explaining to voters what they believe, and why. -- Gary Bauer

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