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siren
«Because I was promoted as a sort of a siren and played all those sexy broads, people made the mistake of thinking I was like that off the screen. They couldn't have been more wrong.»
«No siren did ever so charm the ear of the listener as the listening ear has charmed the soul of the siren»
Author: Henry Taylor
(Author)
| Keywords:
charmed, ever so, listener, siren, Sirens, The Ear, The Listener
«If film noir males are destroyed or nearly destroyed by fate, the noir woman is fate's emissary, a siren leading the man to ruination»
«It is natural for man to indulge in the illusions of hope. We are apt to shut our eyes against a painful truth, and listen to the song of that siren till she transforms us into beasts... For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth, to know the worst, and to provide for it.»
Author: Patrick Henry
(Lawyer)
| About:
Hope,
Illusion,
Mankind
| Keywords:
Against A, anguish, anguished, anguishes, apt, beasts, cost, illusions, indulge, indulges, painful, provide, provide for, shut, siren, Sirens, song, The Song of, The Whole Truth, transforms
«The siren south is well enough, but New York, at the beginning of March, is a hoyden we would not care to miss-a drafty wench, her temperature up and down, full of bold promises and dust in the eye.»
Author: E. B. White
| About:
America and Americans,
Cities
| Keywords:
drafty, hoyden, siren, Sirens, South, temperature, temperatures, up and down, well enough, wench, wenches
«The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little.»
Author: Ray Bradbury
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
after all, a billion, beast, billion, every night, fixedly, freezes, gave, insidious, promised, sang, siren, Sirens, staring, stone, television
«SIREN, n. One of several musical prodigies famous for a vain attempt to dissuade Odysseus from a life on the ocean wave. Figuratively, any lady of splendid promise, dissembled purpose and disappointing performance.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
disappointing, dissemble, dissembled, dissembling, dissuade, dissuaded, dissuading, figuratively, Odysseus, prodigies, prodigy, siren, Sirens
«I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
| About:
Science,
Superstition
| Keywords:
attractive, by year, edges, millennia, millennium, nearer, pseudo, siren, Sirens, sonorous, superstition, tempting, The Millennium, unreason