The class gradually isolates the mechanism beneath anger: Virgilian possessive love expects return praise, so refusal wounds the lover's vanity and turns into hostility.
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Praise
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"Um, he'll get mad at, and he'll make like negative comments on like, oh, you're not that good either. Whatever."
"...bees, there's the honey making urge. Such primal will deserves no praise, and it deserves no blame. Now that all other longings may conform..."
"...Donnie want to do? Well, what should you do before you praise her? Come on guys. Have you never dated? Yes. Yes. Brad learn..."
"Yes. He's getting to know her and praise her and then write poetry for her. And if she rejects him, usually she wouldn't, I..."
"...you can never, ever have, but you just write poetry in praise of her. It's something called a courtly love tradition, the troubadours or..."
"...were, I said, and why just you alone renew these seemly praises. Your speaking to me will not go unthanked when I return to..."
"...sting him here. Then we accuse Sapphira and her husband, we praise the cakes Peliodorus suffered, and Palmnester, who killed Polydorus, resounds in infamy..."
"...have dinner alone together. And of course, Dante only has effusive praise for Shakespeare, the language, the poetry. But during the dinner, he raises..."
"...he said you guys are lovely, which is a pretty high praise coming from him, okay? But he is right, you have improved a..."
"...them out of your greater love for your first works above, praise be your name and your omnipotence by every creature just as it..."
"...he to me, what you have asked is worthy of every praise, therefore I favor it. I only ask you this, refrain from talking...."
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