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Jon Baskin
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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fiction itself is "dialogical," not just in the Bakhtinian sense that it gives credence to contradictory voices or viewpoints
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fiction itself is "dialogical," not just in the Bakhtinian sense that it gives credence to contradictory voices or viewpoints
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abjure
(en)
(verb) to renounce upon oath / (verb) to reject solemnly / (verb) to abstain from; avoid
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a decision to abjure finding out more
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a decision to abjure finding out more
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portentous
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(adjective) of, relating to, or constituting a portent / (adjective) eliciting amazement or wonder; prodigious / (adjective) being a grave or serious matter / (adjective) self-consciously solemn or important; pompous / (adjective) ponderously excessive
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Hal's portentous "I am in here"
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Hal's portentous "I am in here"
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peroration
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(noun) the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration / (noun) a highly rhetorical speech
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The JEsuit delivers a peroration on the necessity of the "leap outward" into adulthood
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The JEsuit delivers a peroration on the necessity of the "leap outward" into adulthood
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