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hermeneutic
(en)
the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts
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the dead ends of certain kinds of European hermeneutics — the realization that repeated analyses of Balzac novellas might not shake the foundations of the subject, let alone those of capitalism
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the dead ends of certain kinds of European hermeneutics — the realization that repeated analyses of Balzac novellas might not shake the foundations of the subject, let alone those of capitalism
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unctuous
(en)
(adjective) fatty oily / (adjective) smooth and greasy in texture or appearance / (adjective) plastic / (adjective) full of unction / (adjective) revealing or marked by a smug, ingratiating, and false earnestness or spirituality
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All these facts, even the crimes, are sources of unctuous pride for South Asians, both in America and the mother countries
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All these facts, even the crimes, are sources of unctuous pride for South Asians, both in America and the mother countries
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panegyric
(en)
(noun) a eulogistic oration or writing / (noun) formal or elaborate praise
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which he gratified with the following panegyric
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which he gratified with the following panegyric
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indelibly
(en)
in a way that cannot be removed or forgotten
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We’ll be Columbine. You will tell people where you live and they’ll have this single, indelible association.
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We’ll be Columbine. You will tell people where you live and they’ll have this single, indelible association.
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lissome
(en)
(adjective) easily flexed / (adjective) lithe / (adjective) nimble
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His fleece coat was of an extraordinary thickness and quality, with a lissome external layer that would not pill
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His fleece coat was of an extraordinary thickness and quality, with a lissome external layer that would not pill
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stygian
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(adjective) extremely dark, gloomy, or forbidding; refers to the River Styx of the underworld Hades in Greek mythology;
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Bathed in this warm glow, a young woman named Ashli lay sleeping, impervious to the stygian immensity of her surroundings
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Bathed in this warm glow, a young woman named Ashli lay sleeping, impervious to the stygian immensity of her surroundings
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saturnine
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(adjective) born under or influenced astrologically by the planet Saturn / (adjective) cold and steady in mood; slow to act or change / (adjective) of a gloomy or surly disposition / (adjective) having a sardonic aspect
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Ever since I became a great Christian of the saturnine, Russian stripe, the city drove me crazy.
not entirely sure what it means here tbh
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Ever since I became a great Christian of the saturnine, Russian stripe, the city drove me crazy.
not entirely sure what it means here tbh
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bathos
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(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"
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Somehow the result of this trick is not bathos but profundity; we see that the story means something more than we thought it might.
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Somehow the result of this trick is not bathos but profundity; we see that the story means something more than we thought it might.
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tendentious
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(adjective) marked by a tendency in favor of a particular point of view; biased
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Hegel was seen (a bit tendentiously) by Althusser and his disciples as a confident oracle of the End of History
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Hegel was seen (a bit tendentiously) by Althusser and his disciples as a confident oracle of the End of History
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