"vexing glass" meaning in All languages combined

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      "form": "vexing glasses",
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          "ref": "1900, Henry W. Cherouny, The Burial of the Apprentice, page 11:",
          "text": "In the German quarter of the city of New York, that is, in that part of the great American metropolis where German life appears as if it were reflected in a vexing glass' ; where the houses are high , the rooms low , and the streets narrow ; where the sunbeams breed miasma from the grocer's cabbage , the saloon - keeper's empty barrels , and the landlord's garbage boxes on the sidewalks—there I found the habitation of the educated German mechanic.",
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          "ref": "1909, Heinrich Oppenheimer, The Criminal Responsibility of Lunatics, page 197:",
          "text": "Normal notions, correctly appreciated by the intellect, thus become caricature when reflected in the vexing-glass of the emotions, and it cannot be surprising if individuals with such a contrary mind are prone to act in a contrary manner .",
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          "ref": "2019, Taking Stock – Twenty-Five Years of Comparative Literary Research, page 527:",
          "text": "Müller achieves this presentist vexing-glass effect although he remains textually much closer to Shakespeare's play than Dürrenmatt .",
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        "A glass curiosity that is designed to create complex visual effects, often through the use of intricate surface patterns, and curved lenses or reflective surfaces."
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          "ref": "1909, Heinrich Oppenheimer, The Criminal Responsibility of Lunatics, page 197:",
          "text": "Normal notions, correctly appreciated by the intellect, thus become caricature when reflected in the vexing-glass of the emotions, and it cannot be surprising if individuals with such a contrary mind are prone to act in a contrary manner .",
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          "text": "Müller achieves this presentist vexing-glass effect although he remains textually much closer to Shakespeare's play than Dürrenmatt .",
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