Sport is an art: it has incredible appeal everywhere on this earth, and it fills so many human hearts with passion that it's impossible to dismiss.
Interpretation
Sports evoke deep emotional connections and admiration across cultures.
In this quote, Frank Deford emphasizes the universal appeal of sports as an art form that resonates with people worldwide. He suggests that the passion generated by sports captivates hearts, making it a significant aspect of human experience that cannot be easily overlooked or disregarded.
In practice
In discussions about the cultural impact of sports at an international conference.
I think there are more good sportswriters doing more good sportswriting than ever before. But I also believe that the one thing that's largely gone out is what made sport such fertile literary territory - the characters, the tales, the humor, the pain, what Hollywood calls 'the arc.'
So much about big-time college sports is criticized. But the worst scandal is almost never mentioned: the academic fraud wherein the student-athletes, so-called, are admitted without even remotely adequate credentials and then aren't educated so much as they are just kept eligible.
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I work with few colors, what creates the illusion of quantity is that they fell in the right place.
I think that the point of being an architect is to help raise the experience of everyday living, even a little. Putting a window where people would really like one. Making sure a shaving mirror in a hotel bathroom is at the right angle. Making bureaucratic buildings that are somehow cheerful.
All great chefs have two things in common. First, they respect nature as the true artist, and they are just cooks. Second, everything that they do is an extension of them as a person.
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