 | Joseph Conrad - Black people - 1914 - 250 pages
...black skull, fitted with two restless globes of silver in the sockets of eyes. He was demoralising. Through him we were becoming highly humanised, tender,...decadent : we understood the subtlety of his fear, sympathised with all his repulsions, shrinkings, evasions, delusions — as though we had been over-civilised,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - London (England) - 1914 - 198 pages
...black skull, fitted with two restless globes of silver in the sockets of eyes. He was demoralising. Through him we were becoming highly humanised, tender,...decadent: we understood the subtlety of his fear, sympathised with all his repulsions, shrinkings, evasions, delusions— as though we had been overcivilised,... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1921 - 558 pages
...humanised, tender, complex, excessively decadent : we understood the subtlety of his fear, sympathised with all his repulsions, shrinkings, evasions, delusions...and without any knowledge of the meaning of life. We had the air of being initiated in some infamous mysteries ; we had the profound grimaces of conspirators,... | |
 | Ernst Paulus Bendz - 1923 - 130 pages
...loyalty, a morbid recklessness of fellow-feeling: — » Through him we were becoming highly humanized, tender, complex, excessively decadent: we understood...shrinkings, evasions, delusions — as though we had been overcivilized, and rotten, and without any knowledge of the f ly meaning of life. We had the air of... | |
 | Ernst Paulus Bendz - 1923 - 134 pages
...loyalty, a morbid recklessness of fellow-feeling: — »Through him we were becoming highly humanized, tender, complex, excessively decadent: we understood...shrinkings, evasions, delusions — as though we had been overcivilized, and rotten, and without any knowledge of the meaning of life. We had the air of being... | |
 | Joseph Conrad - 1927 - 202 pages
...black skull, fitted with two restless globes of silver in the sockets of eyes. | He was demoralising. Through him we were becoming highly humanised, tender,...decadent: we understood the subtlety of his fear, sympathised with all his repulsions, shrinkings, evasions, delusions — as though we had been overcivilised,... | |
 | Ian Watt - Literary Criticism - 1981 - 400 pages
...there is something very Nietzschean about the terms in which Wait's influence on the crew is described: "Through him we were becoming highly humanised, tender,...decadent: we understood the subtlety of his fear, sympathised with all his repulsions, shrinkings, evasions, delusions — as though we had been overcivilised,... | |
 | David Daiches - English literature - 1969 - 356 pages
...humanized, tender, complex, excessively decadent: we understood the subtlety of his fear, sympathised with all his repulsions, shrinkings, evasions, delusions— as though we had been over-civilized and rotten, and without any knowledge of the meaning of life." The old sailor Singleton,... | |
 | Michael Harry Levenson - Literary Criticism - 1986 - 272 pages
...humanised, tender, complex, excessively decndent: we understood the subtlety of his fear, sympathised 32 with all his repulsions, shrinkings, evasions, delusions - as though we had been over-civilised, and rotten, and without any knowledge of the meaning of life.** To understand Wait,... | |
 | Michael Kane - Literary Criticism - 1999 - 242 pages
...triumphed through doubt, through stupidity, through pity, through sentimentalism. ... He was demoralising. Through him we were becoming highly humanised, tender,...decadent: we understood the subtlety of his fear, sympathised with all his repulsions, shrinkings, evasions, delusions — as though we had been over-civilised,... | |
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He was demoralising. Through him we were becoming highly humanised, tender, complex, excessively decadent; we understood the subtlety of his fear, sympathized with all his repulsions, shrinkings, evasions, delusions — as though we had been overcivilised,... 
