a feeling of melancholy and world-weariness; coined by German author Jean Paul
a distinctive angst that swept through fin de siècle Germany, becoming especially fashionable among elites who called it Weltschmerz, literally a “worldpain.
a distinctive angst that swept through fin de siècle Germany, becoming especially fashionable among elites who called it Weltschmerz, literally a “worldpain.
arranged (scales, sepals, plates, etc.) so that they overlap like roof tiles
What are we to make of those black Americans who owned slaves themselves, the imbricated weave
What are we to make of those black Americans who owned slaves themselves, the imbricated weave
(noun) the point in the orbit of an object (as a satellite) orbiting the earth that is at the greatest distance from the center of the earth / (noun) the point farthest from a planet or a satellite (as the moon) reached by an object orbiting it / (noun) the farthest or highest point; culmination
the style of racial politics that wound-licking left-liberals fashioned in the late Clinton and Bush years, and that reached its apogee in both the persona and policy offers of Obama’s presidency
the style of racial politics that wound-licking left-liberals fashioned in the late Clinton and Bush years, and that reached its apogee in both the persona and policy offers of Obama’s presidency
(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"
which even in the late 1930s when Césaire was composing his poem in Paris carried a folksy and bathetic ring that is only dimly captured in the English
which even in the late 1930s when Césaire was composing his poem in Paris carried a folksy and bathetic ring that is only dimly captured in the English
a brief moral saying taken from ancient or popular or other sources, often quoted without context; as an adjective, means either given to aphoristic expression, or just referring to an aphoristic expression. or: 'in a way that tries to sound important or intelligent, especially by expressing moral judgements'
Besides, nothing could be more absurd than sententious displays of solidarity with one of the most virulent antiestablishment rags ever printed.
Besides, nothing could be more absurd than sententious displays of solidarity with one of the most virulent antiestablishment rags ever printed.