#Prim and proper crossword clue how toRex – suspend your rule of not watching animated films and see How to Train Your Dragon. The opposite of “grim.” Stuff will pass, and I’ve privately intoned this mantra to myself many times. I have to agree with - I, too, see the phrase as comforting in icky times. But rather than be annoyed, I’m glad to learn both the guy, the Muslim belief, and that he’s the one who said it first. Of course I’ve never heard of ATTAR, let alone whoever the heck a Sufi is. Longer non-themers also add some life to the grid, with PARTY BUS, ALL THAT, TRASH ART, and " ROBOCOP" being the standouts. First two are good, second two are just OK. The themers themselves are OK as standalone phrases. Somewhat fun fact: ATTAR has appeared 58 times in the Shortz Era, and this is the very first time it's been clued as the poet (the other times it's always or, something like that). Oddly placed, on a Monday, but interesting. Nothing interesting conceptually, nothing interesting in the revelation, just. I feel bad for ATTAR that his big puzzle coming out party reduces him to this nothing "adage." It's just a first-words theme. I'm happy enough to see him, but yikes, on a Monday, that's nuts. program in medieval literature, where I read more Sufi poetry, and *I* barely knew who he was. I took a Mystical & Erotic Poetry class in college (where ATTAR was on the syllabus) and then I went on to a Ph.D. I know damn well most of y'all have no damn idea who ATTAR is. What's really truly weird is that ATTAR (as clued) was not just an answer in a Monday puzzle, but the answer: the revealer itself. Also, "thought to have coined"? What the hell is that? He coined it or he didn't. I assumed it was from the Bible, so I guess I learned something, but it seems pretty sad to reduce an important Sufi poet's work to this dumb adage. is so trite, so banal, I can't imagine wanting to build a puzzle around it. Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr ( The Conference of the Birds) and Ilāhī-Nāma ( The Book of Divine) and Memorial of the Saints are among his best known works. He wrote a collection of lyrical poems and number of long poems in the philosophical tradition of Islamic mysticism, as well as a prose work with biographies and sayings of famous Muslim mystics. 1221 Persian : ابو حامد بن ابوبکر ابراهیم ), better known by his pen-names Farīd ud-Dīn ( فرید الدین ) and ʿAṭṭār of Nishapur ( عطار نیشاپوری, Attar means apothecary ), was a Persian poet, theoretician of Sufism, and hagiographer from Nishapur who had an immense and lasting influence on Persian poetry and Sufism. PASS THE TORCH (52A: Empower a successor, metaphorically)Ībū Ḥamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm (c.SHALL WE DANCE (45A: Invitation to a prospective waltz partner).TOO BAD FOR YOU (27A: Gloating words of mock consolation).THIS ONE'S ON ME (19A: "Have another round - my treat!").THEME: ATTAR (67A: Sufi poet thought to have coined the adage found at the starts of 19-, 27-, 45- and 52-Across) - the adage is: "This / Too / Shall / Pass":
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