The Libeskinds — he is always in black with, occasionally, a red scarf, she in gray — look as if they belonged in an avant-garde art gallery in Berlin, but when Daniel Libeskind opens his mouth what comes out is more along the lines of Middle American sentiment, delivered with a cultivated Eastern European accent.
The Libeskinds—he is always in black with, occasionally, a red scarf, she in gray look as if they belonged in an avant-garde art gallery in Berlin, but when Daniel Libeskind opens his mouth what comes out is more along the lines of Middle American sentiment, delivered with a cultivated Eastern European accent.
… Story-telling was to him a safety-valve, and that he indulged in it, not only for the pleasure it afforded him, but for a temporary relief from oppressing cares; that the habit had been so cultivated that he could make a story illustrate a sentiment and give point to an argument".
That extra revenue, generated in the teeth of national anti-tax sentiment, is being used to protect thousands of acres of scenic orchards and cultivated fields by paying farmers not to develop their land.
In a recent essay, Umberto Eco wrote, "The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia". President Bush expressed complementary sentiments by noting that "instead of directing hatred and resentment against others, successful societies appeal to the hopes of their own people". Wise words for Congress to follow.
Though this appears ambiguous as between locating the beauty in the pleasure or in the impression or idea that causes it, Hume is soon talking about the 'sentiment of beauty,' where sentiment is, roughly, a pleasurable or painful response to impressions or ideas, though beauty is a matter of cultivated or delicate pleasures.
Quarter the cultivated strawberries.
Bricklaying, by contrast, cultivated discipline.
Some are cultivated as ornamentals.
A warm, witty, cultivated man.
