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Listening to Lana sing for a few moments can feel like hours, which is probably the highest praise anyone’s distracted brain tissue can heap upon a singer in too-fast times.

From Washington Post Mar. 27, 2023

But as we can see from the determination in Anne’s step and her utter refusal of the shame that society tries to heap upon her, they are not the end of her story.

From Los Angeles Times Dec. 4, 2022

The more scorn we heap upon him, the harder he will try to please us.

From The Guardian Jun. 25, 2015

More effective than the praise which professional Prohibitors heap upon the job that gives them their daily bread, was a temperate, well-seasoned statement filed by Prof. Irving Fisher, Yale economist.

From Time Magazine Archive

I turn myself to him; And all the blame which he does heap upon me, I own to be deserved; and am not hurt.

From The Deipnosophists, or Banquet of the Learned of Athen?us by Athen?us




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