common sense; good sense; common knowledge; general knowledge; common practice; accepted practice
to throw away; to cast away; to abandon; to desert; to give up; to resign
sleeve (esp. of a kimono); pocket of sleeve; vicinity (esp. of a bridge); foot of a mountain; base of a mountain
scornful laughter; ridicule; derision; sneer
while it may be true that; just because; nevertheless; not necessarily
one-sided; unilateral; arbitrary
judgment; judgement; divination; judgement
to entrust (a matter) to; to leave to; to abandon oneself to (e.g. pleasure); to yield to (e.g. anger); to devote oneself to
fantastic; magical; wondrous; whimsical; fairytale-like; romantic
to wake; to wake up; to become sober; to sober up; to come to one's senses; to be disillusioned
simultaneous; concurrent; same time; synchronous; together
certainly; really; truly; possibly; maybe; perhaps
weariness; fatigue; languor; boredom; tedium; ennui
degeneration; decadence; deterioration; laxness; corruption
pressure; stress; pressure (e.g. political); coercion; arm-twisting
people; men and women; each person; everybody
symbolism (19th-century artistic movement)
author (usu. of a particular book); writer
to follow around; to shadow; to tag along; to haunt one (e.g. feeling, failure); to follow one
fantasy; illusion; vision; dream
unique; matchless; unparalleled; unparallelled; never again
fat; fatty; grand; magnificent; excellent
Occident and Orient (esp. the Occident); ocean; sea; foreign; Western
earthly paradise; Shangri-la
romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale; (nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; (full-length) novel; romance
effeminate; unmanly; cowardly; sissy
snugly; neatly; compactly; cosily
to reach an extreme; to reach a limit; extremely; to be stuck; to be in a dilemma; to be decided
photograph; photo; picture; moving picture; movie