limn
(en)
(verb) depict or describe in painting or words; suffuse or highlight (something) with a bright color or light
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a portrait limned by the convergences of language and the divergences of class
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a portrait limned by the convergences of language and the divergences of class
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scrim
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(noun) a durable plain-woven usually cotton fabric for use in clothing, curtains, building, and industry / (noun) a theater drop that appears opaque when a scene in front is lighted and transparent or translucent when a scene in back is lighted / (noun) something likened to a theater scrim
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the magical is only a kind of scrim
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the magical is only a kind of scrim
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dialogic
(en)
pertaining to a dialogue; used by the Russian philosopher Mikhail Bakhtin in his work of literary theory, The Dialogic Imagination
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we might think of Lila's notebook as an irrepressible paean to what Bahktin once called "novelness" -- a keen sense of language as dialogic, alive, and ever-shifting; revolutionary even.
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we might think of Lila's notebook as an irrepressible paean to what Bahktin once called "novelness" -- a keen sense of language as dialogic, alive, and ever-shifting; revolutionary even.
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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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the surprise comes in the bathetic letdown of their failures
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the surprise comes in the bathetic letdown of their failures
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exegesis
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(from the Greek for "to lead out") a critical explanation or interpretation of a text, particularly a religious text
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this incipient destruction of form is itself a distinctly formal pleasure, ripe for exegesis
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this incipient destruction of form is itself a distinctly formal pleasure, ripe for exegesis
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fulsome
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(adjective) characterized by abundance; copious / (adjective) generous in amount, extent, or spirit / (adjective) being full and well developed / (adjective) aesthetically, morally, or generally offensive / (adjective) exceeding the bounds of good taste; overdone / (adjective) excessively complimentary or flattering; effusive
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Lenu's fulsome praise itself becomes -- on this understanding -- an exercise in masking.
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Lenu's fulsome praise itself becomes -- on this understanding -- an exercise in masking.
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