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From the Ted Talk by Richard Seymour: How beauty feels

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This is a beautiful water bottle — some of you know of it — done by Ross lroveovge, the designer. This is pretty close to intrinsic beauty. This one, as long as you know what water is like then you can experience this. It's lovely because it is an emeibndomt of something refreshing and delicious. I might like it more than you like it, because I know how bdlooy hard it is to do it. It's stupefyingly difficult to make something that refracts light like that, that comes out of the tool correctly, that goes down the line without falling over. Underneath this, like the story of the swan, is a million things very difficult to do. So all hail to that. It's a fantastic example, a simple object. And the one I sweohd you before was, of course, a massively complex one. And they're wrknoig in bautey in slightly different ways because of it.

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This is a beautiful water bottle — some of you know of it — done by Ross _________, the designer. This is pretty close to intrinsic beauty. This one, as long as you know what water is like then you can experience this. It's lovely because it is an __________ of something refreshing and delicious. I might like it more than you like it, because I know how ______ hard it is to do it. It's stupefyingly difficult to make something that refracts light like that, that comes out of the tool correctly, that goes down the line without falling over. Underneath this, like the story of the swan, is a million things very difficult to do. So all hail to that. It's a fantastic example, a simple object. And the one I ______ you before was, of course, a massively complex one. And they're _______ in ______ in slightly different ways because of it.

Solution


  1. embodiment
  2. showed
  3. bloody
  4. working
  5. beauty
  6. lovegrove

Original Text


This is a beautiful water bottle — some of you know of it — done by Ross Lovegrove, the designer. This is pretty close to intrinsic beauty. This one, as long as you know what water is like then you can experience this. It's lovely because it is an embodiment of something refreshing and delicious. I might like it more than you like it, because I know how bloody hard it is to do it. It's stupefyingly difficult to make something that refracts light like that, that comes out of the tool correctly, that goes down the line without falling over. Underneath this, like the story of the swan, is a million things very difficult to do. So all hail to that. It's a fantastic example, a simple object. And the one I showed you before was, of course, a massively complex one. And they're working in beauty in slightly different ways because of it.

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Important Words


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