by
James Wood
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Cormac McCarthy's The Road
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gambrel
(en)
(noun) a stick or iron for suspending slaughtered animals / (noun) a roof with a lower steeper slope and an upper less steep one on each of its two sides
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they found a ham gambreled up in a high corner
quoting Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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they found a ham gambreled up in a high corner
quoting Cormac McCarthy, The Road
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vatic
(en)
(adjective) prophetic, oracular; describing or predicting what will happen in the future
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peroration
(en)
(noun) the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration / (noun) a highly rhetorical speech
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closing the scene with a rather lovely peroration
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closing the scene with a rather lovely peroration
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eschatology
(en)
the part of theology concerned with death, judgment, and the final destiny of the soul and of humankind
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the idea that the boy may be the last god--an eschatological plot that is a kind of more philosophical version of The Terminator
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the idea that the boy may be the last god--an eschatological plot that is a kind of more philosophical version of The Terminator
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edifying
(en)
(verb) build / (verb) establish / (verb) to instruct and improve especially in moral and religious knowledge; uplift / (verb) enlighten inform
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Oprah Winfrey, who selected the novel for her remorselessly edifying book club
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Oprah Winfrey, who selected the novel for her remorselessly edifying book club
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theodicy
(en)
(noun) defense of God's goodness and omnipotence in view of the existence of evil
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There is no obligation for The Road to answer an unanswerable question like theodicy.
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There is no obligation for The Road to answer an unanswerable question like theodicy.
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