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31Spanish profanity — Joder redirects here. For the community in Nebraska, see Joder, Nebraska. This article is a summary of Spanish profanity, referred to in the Spanish language as lenguaje soez (low language), maldiciones (curse words), malas palabras (bad words),… …
32The Maid in the Mill — is a late Jacobean era stage play, a comedy written by John Fletcher and William Rowley. It was initially published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647.PerformanceThe play was licensed for performance by Sir Henry Herbert, the Master …
33Anne Elliot — is the protagonist of Jane Austen s sixth and last completed novel, Persuasion (1818). DescriptionAnne is the overlooked middle daughter of a vain and extravagant baronet, Sir Walter Elliot of Kellynch Hall. Unique among Jane Austen heroines, she …
34literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
35poetry — poetryless, adj. /poh i tree/, n. 1. the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. 2. literary work in metrical form; verse. 3. prose with poetic qualities. 4. poetic… …
36stultify — stultification, n. stultifier, n. stultifyingly, adv. /stul teuh fuy /, v.t., stultified, stultifying. 1. to make, or cause to appear, foolish or ridiculous. 2. to render absurdly or wholly futile or ineffectual, esp. by degrading or frustrating… …
37clownishly — adverb In a clownish, undignified, or foolish manner; absurdly, ridiculously. 1916 The swift December dusk had come tumbling clownishly after its dull day James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man …
38antiwar themes — Conventional wisdom would surely insist that STANLEY KUBRICK’s PATHS OF GLORY, DR. STRANGELOVE, and FULL METAL JACKET contain antiwar messages. But perhaps “antiwar” is too vague a rubric for these films, inasmuch as two of them are, more… …
39absurd — (adj.) 1550s, from M.Fr. absurde (16c.), from L. absurdus out of tune; foolish (see ABSURDITY (Cf. absurdity)). The main modern sense (also present in Latin) is a figurative one, out of harmony with reason or propriety. Related: Absurdly;… …
40crazy — adjective (crazier, craziest) 1》 insane or unbalanced, especially as manifested in wild or aggressive behaviour. ↘extremely foolish. 2》 informal extremely enthusiastic about something. 3》 appearing absurdly out of place or unlikely: the… …
