somnolent
(en)
(adjective) of a kind likely to induce sleep / (adjective) inclined to or heavy with sleep; drowsy / (adjective) sleepy
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Somnolent gentlemanly English firms were sucked into American food conglomerates
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Somnolent gentlemanly English firms were sucked into American food conglomerates
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confrère
(en)
(an English word, derived from Middle French) a fellow member of a profession
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Ellis and his youthful confrères
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Ellis and his youthful confrères
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interstice
(en)
(noun) an intervening space
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a revealing interstice in the early eighties
am i ever going to learn how to pronounce this word?
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a revealing interstice in the early eighties
am i ever going to learn how to pronounce this word?
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sous rature
(fr)
under erasure: a strategic philosophical device originally developed by Martin Heidegger; involves the crossing out of a word within a text, but allowing it to remain legible and in place; used extensively by Jacques Derrida in his philosophy of deconstruction to signify that a word is "inadequate yet necessary"
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The teenage dread is not so much dramatized (as with Caulfield or Sport) but is, to borrow Jacques Derrida's phrase, sous rature -- as though the very presence of the idea owrks only to emphasize the extent to which it should be absent.
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The teenage dread is not so much dramatized (as with Caulfield or Sport) but is, to borrow Jacques Derrida's phrase, sous rature -- as though the very presence of the idea owrks only to emphasize the extent to which it should be absent.
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fey
(en)
(adjective) fated to die; doomed / (adjective) marked by a foreboding of death or calamity / (adjective) able to see into the future; visionary / (adjective) marked by an otherworldly air or attitude / (adjective) crazy touched / (adjective) excessively refined; precious / (adjective) quaintly unconventional; campy
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His fey charm and classic good looks
on Michael Chabon
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His fey charm and classic good looks
on Michael Chabon
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protean
(en)
(adjective) of or resembling Proteus in having a varied nature or ability to assume different forms / (adjective) displaying great diversity or variety; versatile
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the transcendent nature of sex -- its opportunities for cross-cultural communication, its ability to rise above the specifics of language and embrace the universal with its protean physicality
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the transcendent nature of sex -- its opportunities for cross-cultural communication, its ability to rise above the specifics of language and embrace the universal with its protean physicality
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jejune
(en)
(adjective) lacking nutritive value / devoid of significance or interest; dull / naive, simplistic, and superficial
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beyond his own jejune philosophical agonizings
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beyond his own jejune philosophical agonizings
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concupiscence
(en)
(noun) strong desire / (noun) sexual desire
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Isadora Wing, ragingly concupiscent
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Isadora Wing, ragingly concupiscent
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bricolage
(en)
(noun) construction (as of a sculpture or a structure of ideas) achieved by using whatever comes to hand / (noun) something constructed in this way
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the knowing devices of postmodernism, as bricolage
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the knowing devices of postmodernism, as bricolage
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