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71Moscow school — School of late medieval Russian icon and mural painting. It succeeded the Novgorod school as the dominant school of painting when Moscow rose to a leading position in the movement to expel the Mongols. The school flowered first under the… …
72Anthropology and Archaeology — ▪ 2009 Introduction Anthropology Among the key developments in 2008 in the field of physical anthropology was the discovery by a large interdisciplinary team of Spanish and American scientists in northern Spain of a partial mandible (lower… …
73arts, East Asian — Introduction music and visual and performing arts of China, Korea, and Japan. The literatures of these countries are covered in the articles Chinese literature, Korean literature, and Japanese literature. Some studies of East Asia… …
74Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit — Robert C.Solomon G.W.F.Hegel (1770–1831) was the greatest systematic philosopher of the nineteenth century. As a young man he followed and was (at least at first) enthusiastic about the French Revolution. Then came the Reign of Terror of 1793,… …
75COMÉDIE AMÉRICAINE (cinéma) — La «comédie américaine» ne prend son véritable essor qu’au début des années 1930. Même si elle entretient avec la «comédie musicale», née par définition avec le parlant, des relations rendues inextricables par la présence des mêmes réalisateurs,… …
76ÉLECTRONIQUE (INDUSTRIE) — L’utilisation du mot électronique dans sa présente acception est relativement récente: jusqu’aux années cinquante, ce vocable se rapportait le plus souvent à la seule discipline qui traitait du mouvement des électrons dans le vide, et ce qu’on… …
77sophisticated — 01. The better your English language skills, the more you are able to talk about [sophisticated] topics. 02. His reading tastes are not very [sophisticated]. Basically, he reads comic books and sports magazines. 03. His use of language is not… …
78mundaneness — noun 1. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment • Syn: ↑sophistication, ↑worldliness, ↑mundanity • Ant: ↑naivete (for: ↑sophistication) …
79mundanity — noun 1. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment • Syn: ↑sophistication, ↑worldliness, ↑mundaneness • Ant: ↑naivete (for: ↑sophistication) …
80worldliness — noun 1. the quality or character of being intellectually sophisticated and worldly through cultivation or experience or disillusionment • Syn: ↑sophistication, ↑mundaneness, ↑mundanity • Ant: ↑naivete (for: ↑sophistication) …
