Robert Farrar Capon

Give us this day our daily taste. Restore to us soups that spoons will not sink in and sauces which are never the same twice. Raise up among us stews with more gravy than we have bread to blot it with Give us pasta with a hundred fillings.

American Clergyman

Julie Walters

It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having my teens in my early thirties: blotting out your life, not having to think about anything.

British Actress

Lord Byron

What is the worst of woes that wait on age? What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow? To view each loved one blotted from life's page, And be alone on earth, as I am now.

British Poet

George Eliot

Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.

British Author

Buffalo Bill

But the West of the old times, with its strong characters, its stern battles and its tremendous stretches of loneliness, can never be blotted from my mind.

American Celebrity

Susie Orbach

Fat people are so rarely included in visual culture that fat is perceived as a blot on the landscape of sleek and slim.

English Psychologist

William Makepeace Thackeray

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

English Novelist

Edmund Waller

Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot.

English Poet

Ambrose Bierce

Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

American Journalist

Neil Armstrong

I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

American Astronaut

Blot as a noun often refers to a visible blemish caused unintentionally.

Visual Marks

When using 'blot', it usually implies an accidental spill or spot that's undesirable.

Often Accidental

'Blot' can carry a negative connotation, suggesting annoyance or upset.

Negative Emotion

As a verb, 'blot' involves pressing a material to absorb excess liquid.

Absorption Action

Using 'blot' implies a delicate action to avoid spreading the stain or liquid.

Gentle Pressure

A 'blot' can figuratively represent something shameful or a negative aspect.

Figurative Use

Using 'blot' suggests a spoilage or visually unpleasant effect on something's integrity.

Spoiling Effect

As a verb, 'blot' implies eclipsing something by comparison, making it less significant.

Comparison Principle

'Blot out’ can refer to the desire to forget or ignore unpleasant memories or feelings.

Emotional Relief

 the protagonists of the narrative it's their story and I think just you know a quick aside of what that blot the story did you just said it's so powerful about the blind kid who knew like even though he can't see he he wants to be in the frame well and he wants to be represented also well there is a bigger

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 the detail-oriented, the big-picture perceivers, and flexible participants able to adapt their approach. Some people would get stuck, offering the same answer for multiple blots. Others gave unusual and delightful descriptions. Responses were as varied as the inkblots,

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 but there's probably something else that she's not willing to let me, in her letter, or maybe even herself, to see. It's like that guy who's taking a Rorschach test. You all know what Rorschach tests are? A psychologist shows you some ink blots, they look like that,

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 when I interviewed her, she said, "I was singing 'Where Have All The Flowers Gone,' over and over, to occupy my mind. I was singing to blot out the things my mind was saying, which were, 'You are nothing. You are nobody. You don't even deserve to live.'

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 Think about it. Now, in design terms, a wheelchair is a very difficult object. It mostly projects tragedy and fear and misfortune, and it projects that message, that story, so strongly that it almost blots out anything else.

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 leading to septicemia, also known as blood poisoning. This breaks down blood vessels, letting blood seep out and form what starts out looking like a rash, and evolves into big discoloured blots beneath the skin.

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 begin to bring particles of soil and place them on the slug in this way the slime is soaked up like ink on blotting paper gradually the slug disappears under a writhing mass of earth and ants

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 but the few that return come back with stories, stories of powerful shamans, of warriors with poisoned arrows, of trees so tall they blotted out the sun,

How I found a mythical...

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