schlemiel
(ji)
a stupid, awkward, or unlucky person
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She was also a transcendent schlemiel.
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She was also a transcendent schlemiel.
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sforzando
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played with prominent stress or accent —used as a direction in music
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a baroque sforzando quavering to rest in the image
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a baroque sforzando quavering to rest in the image
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semiotics
(en)
the study of signs and symbols and their use or interpretation (adj: semiotic)
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"semiotics" (which is the systematic investigation of signs and symbols)
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"semiotics" (which is the systematic investigation of signs and symbols)
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entropology
(en)
the study of man has become the study of disintegration and certain extinction
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defined by Claude Lévi-Strauss in contrast to anthropology
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defined by Claude Lévi-Strauss in contrast to anthropology
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sententia
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a brief moral saying taken from ancient or popular or other sources, often quoted without context; as an adjective, means either given to aphoristic expression, or just referring to an aphoristic expression. or: 'in a way that tries to sound important or intelligent, especially by expressing moral judgements'
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sententia (the Latin name for a one-sentence dictum or proposition)
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sententia (the Latin name for a one-sentence dictum or proposition)
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litote
(en)
understatement (feminine)
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A litote, as we find it persistently in the greatest of all French writers--in Racine--is the tightly, densely concentrated expression of some central immensity, or even enormity, in human recognitions and emotions.
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A litote, as we find it persistently in the greatest of all French writers--in Racine--is the tightly, densely concentrated expression of some central immensity, or even enormity, in human recognitions and emotions.
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plangent
(en)
loud, reverberating, and often melancholy
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epigone
(en)
(noun) follower disciple / (noun) an inferior imitator
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Our arts and letters are, arguably, those of epigones.
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Our arts and letters are, arguably, those of epigones.
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somnambular
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to walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleeplike condition
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Our responses to crises display a certain somnambular automatism.
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Our responses to crises display a certain somnambular automatism.
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encomium
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a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory
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a graduate student launched on an encomium of times past
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a graduate student launched on an encomium of times past
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