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Susan Sontag
ontology
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(noun) a branch of metaphysics concerned with the nature and relations of being / (noun) a particular theory about the nature of being or the kinds of things that have existence
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While the "cruelty" in Marat/Sade is not, ultimately, a moral issue, it is not an aesthetic one either. It is an ontological issue.
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While the "cruelty" in Marat/Sade is not, ultimately, a moral issue, it is not an aesthetic one either. It is an ontological issue.
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caviling
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(verb) to raise trivial and frivolous objection / (verb) to raise trivial objections to
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not to be caviled at
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not to be caviled at
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laconic
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(adjective) using or involving the use of a minimum of words; concise to the point of seeming rude or mysterious
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"Pleasure isn't all fun," as the title to Episode X announces laconically
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"Pleasure isn't all fun," as the title to Episode X announces laconically
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abjure
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(verb) to renounce upon oath / (verb) to reject solemnly / (verb) to abstain from; avoid
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Suspense, shocks, surprises are mostly abjured in favor of a steady, inexorable plot.
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Suspense, shocks, surprises are mostly abjured in favor of a steady, inexorable plot.
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prurient
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(adj) having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters
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too full of pathos and too ingenuous to be prurient
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too full of pathos and too ingenuous to be prurient
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aleatory
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(adjective) depending on an uncertain event or contingency as to both profit and loss / (adjective) relating to luck and especially to bad luck
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there is aleatory performance now as well as composition
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there is aleatory performance now as well as composition
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immanence
(en)
philosophical and metaphysical theories of divine presence in which the divine encompasses or is manifested in the material world
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not all eschatological theories are theories of history. There is another kind of eschatology, which might be called the eschatology of immanence (as opposed to the more familiar eschatology of transcendence)
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not all eschatological theories are theories of history. There is another kind of eschatology, which might be called the eschatology of immanence (as opposed to the more familiar eschatology of transcendence)
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eschatology
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the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind
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Traditionally, eschatology has taken the form of an expectation of the future transcendence of the human condition for all mankind in exorably advancing history
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Traditionally, eschatology has taken the form of an expectation of the future transcendence of the human condition for all mankind in exorably advancing history
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inveigh
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(verb) to protest or complain bitterly or vehemently; rail
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No matter how much they scream or prance about or inveigh to heaven or lament their misfortune
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No matter how much they scream or prance about or inveigh to heaven or lament their misfortune
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ineffable
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(adjective) incapable of being expressed in words; indescribable / (adjective) unspeakable / (adjective) not to be uttered; taboo
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A sensibility is almost, but not quite, ineffable.
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A sensibility is almost, but not quite, ineffable.
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