tacked

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of Tack

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Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour. Horace

Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word "disease" was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. "Which disease?" John Ralston Saul

Nothing happens while you live. The scenery changes, people come in and go out, that's all. There are no beginnings. Days are tacked on to days without rhyme or reason, an interminable, monotonous addition. Jean-Paul Sartre

My soul is a canvas stretched across four wooden corners and tacked with copper nails that sink into the edges of timber like teeth. My art is nothing less than my salvation. Keariene Muizz

Often when I talk about what I do, making isn't just this inevitable function tacked on at the end. Jonathan Ive

Some would argue, you know, in some of the books of the New Testament, the ending of the Book of Job is different. I think, if I'm not mistaken, there's one book where there's a more optimistic ending, which we believe was tacked on later. Howard Dean