(noun) a usually rhetorical break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse / (noun) a break in the flow of sound in a verse caused by the ending of a word within a foot / (noun) break interruption / (noun) a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a melody
the brief collective phantasm of romanticism following the caesura of modernity
The riots marked a sharp caesura in the lives of Caribbean migrants to Britain
the caesura between bourgeois society and capitalism should not be conceived as some absolute discontinuity but rather as a problem to be resolved by historical studies
A time of abeyance for me, I have had small ones before, but none so long or profound as this. A caesura in my life.
many felt that the step had been premature, that neither would Britain allow such a caesura, nor could India survive on its own
oooh really cool use of the term
This specific event, the caesura from Malaysia,
In that caesura so much richness lies
this writing omg
Those who wish today to philosophize in Marx not only come after him, but come after Marxism: they cannot be content merely to register the caesura Marx created, but must also think on the ambivalence of the effects that caesura produced – both in its proponents and its opponents
The caesura effected by Marx has been more or less clearly acknowledged, more or less willingly accepted; it has even given rise to violent refutations and strenuous attempts at neutralization
on Marx as a writer who has transformed philosophy
Another advantage of those voiced intrusions is to provide a kind of beat or a caesura in the ongoing narrative.