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To audiences who had been forced to sit through plays in which love was the motive of the intrigue, but who had an instinctive feeling that love, though all very well in its way, was not really quite so important as the dramatists pretended, for after all there were politics, golf, getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things, it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for whom love was a tiresome, secondary business, a quick gratification of a momentary impulse whose consequences were generally awkward.
To audiences who had been forced to sit through plays in which love was the motive of the intrigue, but who had an instinctive feeling that love, though all very well in its way, was not really quite so important as the dramatists pretended, for after all there were politics, golf, getting on with one's job and all sorts of other things, it was a welcome relief to come upon a dramatist for whom love was a tiresome, secondary business, a quick gratification of a momentary impulse whose consequences were generally awkward.
As a rule of thumb, use VERB-derived-NOUN of X when X is the Patient (Object) of VERB and X's VERB-derived-NOUN when X is the Agent (Subject) of VERB.
My recommendation implies† that I made the recommendation.
Recommendation of me implies† that someone recommended me.
If both the Agent an...
Interests, in this case, means "shares, rights, or title in the ownership of [...] a commercial [...] undertaking" (meaning #6 in this dictionary.com definition, and related also to meaning #5)
Giving up those interests, in this case, implies selling their share of ownership in any and all ventu...
Here are two sentences.
The very first few weeks that I spent at the new company, I made a lot of mistake.
The very first few weeks when I was new to the new company, I made a lot of mistake.
Here, can I use both? the point is that incomplete clause(without object of spent) follo...
Writing is an art, It's good way of expressing your thoughts. But not everybody is good at it. I think you don't have to be a professional writer in order to write a good piece of article or blog.
I'm not good at writing decent articles. Can anybody suggest me what should I do, How should I impr...
I have a question about the usage of the verb "see" here:
Just yesterday, Chancellor George Osborne said there was no chance Britain would be involved in any plans to give Greece emergency loans.
Today, Brussels seems to have ridden roughshod over those concerns and previous promises to D...
visualization reappeared today. It was previously deleted after this meta discussion. Should we remove it again, or perhaps merge it with software?
So, yesterday these two questions got posted, one on English Language Learners and one on English Language and Usage:
Someone who looks for problems and is not interested in solving an issue pragmatically - (ELL)
~1000 views, 10 answers
Someone who looks for problems and is not interested in...
