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Frugal dishes imbue a sense of gratitude

I hated to agree with anything he said. But legislating monuments doesn't rectify injustices of the past, it just fumbles with the symbols of history, reminding us why we devise them in the first place. Ultimately monuments gain meaning when we imbue them with it, otherwise they join the statues of cruel monarchs and bloody generals that have become the civilized backdrop to our parks and plazas.

imbue sth/sb with sth

imbue sth/sb with sth phrasal verb FORMAL ━━ vt. ((普通受身で)) しみ込ませる; （思想・野心などを）吹込む ((with)).
to fill something or someone with a particular feeling, quality or idea:
His poetry is imbued with deep, religious feeling.

These streams form an intricate pattern, linking man and machine, inside and out.As a result, the structure is imbued with a level of dynamic energy barely imaginable by an earlier generation of Machine Age enthusiasts.



You know, when you play music, you get this peaceful quality I believe also because you are in control of something, or at least you are attempting to control something that you cannot do in the real world. You can control life and death of the sound, and if you imbue every note with a human quality, when that note dies it is exactly that, it is a feeling of death.



But legislating monuments doesn't rectify injustices of the past, it just fumbles with the symbols of history, reminding us why we devise them in the first place. Ultimately monuments gain meaning when we imbue them with it, otherwise they join the statues of cruel monarchs and bloody generals that have become the civilized backdrop to our parks and plazas.