...and Victorian sentiments was personified by Hemingway's hero in A Farewell to Arms (1929), who said: "I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice, and the expression in vain." Some replaced visions of old homesteads with images of exotic places that somehow promised an alternative...

...familiar passage in all of Hemingway's work, Frederic's musing on the proclamations of the patriotic: I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words...

...narrator remarks that 'abstract words such as glory, honour, courage or hallow were obscene'. He adds that I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain ... I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were...

...famous and most discussed expressions of this loss of innocence is to be found in A Farewell to Arms: I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had . . . read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations,...

...addition, in Chapter XXVII, while it is again raining, Frederic confesses during the retreat that he is embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. ... I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were...

...the dominant society, may even have results indistinguishable from those of documentary positivism: I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words...

...The Waste Land, but a generation's universal revulsion at the betrayal of its idealistic trust : « I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain... I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like...

...sense of exploded ideals that Hemingway's generation felt after the senseless slaughter of World War I: I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words...

...character remarks that the Italians could not have fought the Austrians in vain, a friend observes: I was always embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them . . . and had read them, on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over...

...Harte (Boston, 1912), 17-19. loo. Ernest Hemingway, A Farewell to Arms (New York, 1919), 177-78: "I was embarrassed by the words sacred, glorious, and sacrifice and the expression in vain. We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words...