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(1729–1781), German dramatist, critic, theologian, and most prominent proponent of the German Enlightenment. A son of the c… Breathless , breath·less / ˈbre[unvoicedth]lis/ • adj. gasping for breath, typically due to exertion: the climb left me breathless. ∎ short of breath or appearing… Beautiful , Beautiful
Beautiful. One of three C18 aesthetic categories, with the Picturesque and the Sublime. Edmund Burke, in his A Philosophical Enquiry into t… Beauty , Beauty
BEAUTY is said to be a property of an object that produces an aesthetic pleasure; this pleasure is a subjective response to a beautiful object… Doris Lessing , Doris Lessing (born 1919) was a South African expatriate writer known for her strong sense of feminism. A short story writer and novelist, as well as… Equal , e·qual / ˈēkwəl/ • adj. 1. being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value: add equal amounts of water and flour. ∎ (of people) having the same st…
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