14 Antonyms for « acrimony »

Thus it was that when the Tao was lost, its attributes appeared; when its attributes were lost, benevolence appeared; when benevolence was lost, righteousness appeared; and when righteousness was lost, the proprieties appeared.

My strong suspicion that she must have told him, my irresistible dread (all the more overpowering from its very vagueness) of the consequences which might follow, my fixed conviction, derived from various little self-betrayals which women notice in each other, that Madame Fosco, in spite of her well-assumed external civility, had not forgiven her niece for innocently standing between her and the legacy of ten thousand pounds--all rushed upon my mind together, all impelled me to speak in the vain hope of using my own influence and my own powers of persuasion for the atonement of Laura's offence.

One restaurant frankly adopted the motto, "Courtesy Pays," and had it all fixed up with gilt letters and framed and hung it near the front door, and a number of other places have exactly the same policy for exactly the same reason though they do not all proclaim the fact so boldly.

He'd eventually been defeated by Peacegiver, who had then ended the Manywar through diplomacy.

When expressed with some amount of reflectiveness it seems co-ordinate with a belief that this flattery must be reasonable to be effective.

The latter, at last, answered him, not condescendingly, as Alyoshahad feared, but with modesty and reserve, with evident goodwill andapparently without the slightest arrierepensee“I start from the position that this confusion of elements, thatis, of the essential principles of Church and State, will, ofcourse, go on for ever, in spite of the fact that it is impossible forthem to mingle, and that the confusion of these elements cannot leadto any consistent or even normal results, for there is falsity atthe very foundation of it.

He had retired to private prayer in his chamber, and Mr. and Mrs. Earnshaw were engaging Missy's attention by sundry gay trifles bought for her to present to the little Lintons, as an acknowledgment of their kindness.

Ultimately I found myself backing Traddles into the fireplace, and bowing in great confusion to two dry little elderly ladies, dressed in black, and each looking wonderfully like a preparation in chip or tan of the late Mr. Spenlow.

She should always be anxious to acquire and obtain experience and knowledge, be free from avarice, and always have a liking for social gatherings, and for the arts.

Had I known at the first what now I know--nay, had I even guess at him--one so precious life had been spared to many of us who did love her.

And Marianne was in spirits; happy in the mildness of the weather, and still happier in her expectation of a frost.

just now, but refrained out of politeness?”

Already he knows her sweetness and loving care; later on he will understand how some men so loved her, that they did dare much for her sake."

Considerable sympathy was expressed for the mother of the deceased, who was greatly affected during the giving of her own evidence, and that of Dr. Birrell, who had made the post-mortem examination of the deceased."