Indeed, the twentieth century brought forth many Dorian Grays: fiendishly pure spirits so wrapped up in aesthetics that they become heedless of humanity.
His greatness was often against the spirit of the age, largely because the ages in which he lived had so many nasty spirits.
Like so many other spirits, I was first introduced to the cane spirit during college after it had been blended (poorly) into a trash can filled with sparkly carbonated stuff a ton of artificial fruit juices, some citrus that I think was left over from the previous year, bubble gum and some hard candies with ice bought at the gas station up the street.
Not to mention that the so-called animal spirits are back, referring to favourable attitudes toward risk and the markets.
One of the main justifications for quantitative easing is that higher asset prices will ultimately instill confidence, igniting so-called animal spirits.
Dogs are said to have an instinctive ability to detect the demonic spirits that are so significant to Balinese beliefs, their barks being welcomed at night as they chase negative forces away.
One of the reasons he wrote letters and poems so copiously was that they lifted his spirits, diverting him from the demons within.
And he is now so happy you cannot conceive anything like his spirits.
From a marketplace to a school to the grounds of a luxury resort, shrines are built so offerings can be left to keep these spirits content.
Nigeria's 200 or so spectators at the stadium began had their spirits lifted after Nigeria's Obafemi Martins equalised on 62 minutes and Yakubu Aiyegbeni netted again just three minutes later.
Although I was a young nursing student, I had already learned a few important things about older people: touch is so very important, and humor can lift the spirits.
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America in the 18th and 19th centuries was a land of thousands of licensed stills. (And uncounted, shall we say, informal operations.) "New York alone had 1, 200 legal distilleries before Prohibition, " claims Ralph Erenzo, a cofounder (in 2003) of Tuthilltown Spirits, the state's first and so far only whiskey producer since Repeal.
But to do so this century they will need how to recover the animal spirits that drove their remarkable rise in the last.
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In the last two years it has won a number of Gold Double Gold and Platinum medals in the most prestigious spirits competitions, San Francisco, New York and so on.
As one Treasury adviser explained it to me, they're using the government's good name to stand in for the Keynesian "animal spirits" in the private sector which are now so clearly lacking.
It needs so little irrigation to thrive compared to the crops grown for other spirits.
He described the officer as "enthusiastic" about his job and said he was in "remarkably good spirits, " joking with doctors that if he were so lucky he wouldn't have been shot in the first place.
So I started doing different things but there was always the element of the spirits calling me.
So far, too, the games are being played in the best of spirits.
Spirits often last for years upon years, Mr. Bacardi says, so you shouldn't worry about hanging on to a bottle, even if it has been opened.
If so, that would potential deal a serious blow to the proposed takeover of United Spirits by British liquor company Diageo, which sought to buy out the firm from UB Group last year.
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But just before leaving the hotel to drive the 30 minutes or so to the Messecenter for the weigh-in, there came a moment that really appeared to lift his spirits.
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