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How to use the word Dickens in a Sentence?

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I'm chief of staff to Andre Dickens, oK, well you still have a warrant for your arrest.

Ali Carter

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

The problem that we've got is, we're trying like the dickens to treat the symptom without treating the disease, and the disease in this case isn't the Second Amendment ; the disease is youngsters who are steeped in a culture of violence, they've been drugged in many cases. Nearly all of these perpetrators are male, and they're young teenagers in most cases, and they've come through a culture where violence is commonplace.

Oliver North

Found on CNN
5 years ago

We are trying like the dickens to treat the symptoms, not the disease, the disease isn’t the Second Amendment.

Dimitrios Pagourtzis

Found on FOX News
5 years ago

Every city has a sex and an age which have nothing to do with demography. Rome is feminine. So is Odessa. London is a teenager, an urchin, and, in this, hasn't changed since the time of Dickens. Paris, I believe, is a man in his twenties in love with an older woman.

John Berger

added by anonymous
10 years ago

The American mood, perhaps even the American character, has changed. There are few manifestations any longer of the old American self-assurance which so irritated Dickens. Instead, there is a sense of frustration so perceptible that even our politicians have attempted to exploit it.

Archibald MacLeish

added by anonymous
10 years ago

I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of "Admin." The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid "dens of crime" that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern.

C. S. Lewis

added by anonymous
13 years ago

I cannot tell what the dickens his name is.

William Shakespeare, "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 3 scene 2

added by anonymous
13 years ago

For aesthetics is the mother of ethics. Were we to choose our leaders on the basis of their reading experience and not their political programs, there would be much less grief on earth. I believe-not empirically, alas, but only theoretically-that for someone who has read a lot of Dickens to shoot his like in the name of an idea is harder than for someone who has read no Dickens.

Joseph Brodsky

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling like the dickens underneath.

Michael Caine

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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