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Literary notes about levels (AI summary)

The word "levels" is used in literature in a remarkably versatile way, functioning both as a concrete measure and a metaphorical device. In many texts, it denotes physical strata or spatial gradations—a building constructed on two levels ([1]), mountain slopes ascending from twilight to golden light ([2]), or architectural tiers that organize a cityscape ([3]). At the same time, it often signifies abstract layers, as when psychological warfare is described as attacking every level of personality ([4]) or when cultural or moral advancement is linked to rising to higher levels of resistance ([5]). Authors also employ the term to express egalitarian ideas, noting, for instance, that love levels all inequalities ([6]), and to quantify phenomena such as economic performance or public health ([7], [8]). Thus, whether evoking measurable heights or metaphorical depths, "levels" enriches literary language by bridging the tangible and the conceptual ([9], [10]).
  1. The foundations of the secular rooms are constructed on two levels, an upper and a lower.
    — from Mesa Verde [Colorado] National Park by Anonymous
  2. There were the tops of the mountains bathed in floods of golden light, while their lower levels were already dim with twilight gloom.
    — from See America First by Charles J. Herr
  3. Returning from one of these dark walks they reached a great gravel-cliff immediately over the levels, where they stood still and listened.
    — from Tess of the d'Urbervilles: A Pure Woman by Thomas Hardy
  4. Instead, the process of brain-washing consists of a frontal attack on all levels of the personality, from the most conscious to the most hidden.
    — from Psychological Warfare by Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger
  5. Enforce the tenement-house laws, and the moral strength of the people of New York will rise to higher levels of moral resistance.
    — from The Leaven in a Great City by Lillian William Betts
  6. Love levels all inequalities.
    — from A Polyglot of Foreign Proverbs
  7. Three decades ago its GDP per capita was comparable with levels in the poorer countries of Africa and Asia.
    — from The 1997 CIA World Factbook by United States. Central Intelligence Agency
  8. When I took office, immunization levels for preventable childhood diseases had fallen to 70%.
    — from State of the Union Addresses (1790-2006) by United States. Presidents
  9. That ocean shore he viewed that showed Fair as the blessed Gods' abode Where cool delightful breezes played O'er levels in the freshest shade.
    — from The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Valmiki
  10. And they give forth O'er skiey levels of the spreading world
    — from On the Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus

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