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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Penchant"”.
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The Cranberry Club
… with undiagnosed depressive tendencies and a penchant for the grotesque. The main action takes place in Brooklyn, New York, during the calendar year of 1999. The central characters in this book are coping with anxiety, loss, and lethargy as they wander a desolate city landscape, gradually …
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Étude du bilinguisme dans les conseils de ville de Moncton et de Dieppe
… examinerons la portée de ces politiques en nous penchant sur les pratiques linguistiques réelles des conseillers municipaux telles que nous avons pu les observer pendant les réunions publiques des conseils municipaux; nous nous attarderons également sur les propos que tiennent les conseillers sur …
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Movement in Relation to Diction and Imagery in E. E. Cummings' Elegy "My Father Moved Through Dooms of Love"
… of Cummings' syntactical experimentation and his penchant for endowing commonplace words with fresh meaning by forcing one part of speech to function as another; some have focused on the poem's presentation of an explicit world of moral judgment which apotheosizes Cummings' transcendent idealism …
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The search for true hospitality in the travel writing of Margaret Fuller, Henry David Thoreau, Herman Melville, and Mark Twain.
… and travel writing to challenge their peers' penchant for provincialism, a penchant preserved by aristocratic hospitality. They invite their readers to move beyond the self (which they describe variously as narrator/traveler, the reader, or, at times, the country writ large) as they set out in …
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"The New Millennium's Passion for Standing Live Witness to Things:” The Epidemiology of Isolation, Addiction and Redemption in David Foster Wallace’s <em>Infinite Jest</em>
… of redemption despite isolation, addiction and a penchant for self-absorption in a society whose inhabitants have trouble relating to one another. Discussed in conjunction with redemption is Wallace’s own vision of postmodern literature. Using major and minor characters, the following pages will …
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Le malheur et le bonheur dans ‘Jean Sbogar’, ‘Smarra’, ‘Trilby’, et ‘La fée aux miettes’ de Charles Nodier
… siècle pour montrer, dans un deuxième temps, le penchant de notre auteur pour l'imaginaire. En dernier lieu, nous prendrons également en compte le fait que le bonheur complet ne semble jamais possible. Nous allons examiner également la manière dont Charles Nodier entend résoudre ce nouveau …
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"""To immerse myself in words"": Text and music in selected choral works of Samuel Barber"
… and modal syntax is discussed. Finally, Barber's penchant for modal ambiguity, close attention to musical form, and concise phrase structures is used as the basis of an evaluation of his placement in the history of musical style and his role among twentieth-century composers, with conclusions …
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Everything Must Go (Original writing, Short stories).
… to send, in total, $1941.09. Given the author's penchant for sleazy women and Snapple, where do you think he will spend this money? (4) An attentive reader will notice there are few happy couples in this collection. All sorts of nasty things are happening to relationships between men and women. …
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The space between Beirut and the moon : the spatial Lebanese coming of age novel
… his father (a book-hoarding journalist with a penchant for writing eulogies) as well as his relationship with his closest friend (a Druze who is said to worship goats and believe in reincarnation) shape his own character. His experiences vary from the mundane family and school life, to near …
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The Pursuit of Balanced Income: An Economic Perspective on Wealth
… of wealth is necessary for households with a penchant for early retirement and particularly for those that will inevitably succumb to involuntary retirement. In these writings, qualitative and quantitative descriptions of wealth are offered; two microeconomic metrics are introduced to identify …
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La construcción y el papel de la identidad vasca en la literatura vasco americana
… fields. As Western criticism left behind its penchant for ethnocentric and binary opposition hermeneutics, so did the literary production we associate with the Basque American Diaspora. The present study aims to shed light on a contemporary shift in Basque Diaspora writings by viewing them …
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Composing Malaysian popular music for the Orchestra in the early 21st century
… shape the everyday profession, and the Malaysian penchant for hybridity and multiculturalism. I examine my habitual use of jazz harmony, memorable melodies and dance-like rhythms in my compositions, and I trace these habitual usages to how these composition features intersect with my professional, …
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A Grammar of Transcriptions in 2 Esdras: Text, Philology, Phonology
… for any ʟⅹⅹ book. The translator had a penchant for transcription and for slavish representation of semitic Ezra-Nehemiah. Previous studies of transcriptions identified 2 Esdras as the last ʟⅹⅹ book to be translated, in the mid-late 2nd c. ᴄᴇ. This work contributes an exhaustive …
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The generation of metaphor in the writing process
… Subjects, who were selected for their penchant for metaphoric writing, composed two drafts of a narrative and descriptive essay while recording their thoughts into tape recorders. Transcripts, essays, interviews, and observations were examined for evidence about how metaphor evolves. …
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Sacramental Theology of Elochukwu Uzukwu in Light of Vatican II and Its Application in African Contexts
… African view of the human body, particularly its penchant for expressive worship and community – oriented celebrations, is a reality that seeks to bridge the disconnect between sacraments and ethics, thereby overcoming mere ritualism and making the sacraments more relevant. This approach finds …
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Towards a New Currency of Economic Criticism
… representations of value will serve to expose a penchant for material fetishism in economic criticism and provide a theory of currency, value, and exchange that contextualizes representational and material notions of value within the social and economic system that provides the processes and …
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HENRY JAMES AND ROMANTIC REVISIONISM: THE QUEST FOR THE MAN OF IMAGINATION IN THE LATE WORK
… a critical agency that profits from criticism’s penchant for ironic repetition but also a politics that can help us navigate the tension between artistic self-stylization and the social constraints intrinsic to the liberal rule of law.
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Voyage et altérité dans "Fragiles lumières de la terre" de Gabrielle Roy
… deux volets de l'œuvre de Gabrielle Roy, en nous penchant plus spécifiquement sur les reportages publiés dans Fragiles lumières de la terre, ainsi que dans le reportage «Les Gens de Chez-Nous», une chronique publiée dans le Bulletin des agriculteurs, qui est en fait la suite des articles de …
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The Growth and Development of Sport in Co. Tipperary, 1840-1880
… in Ireland and Great Britain as the Victorian penchant for sport manifested itself in this part of rural Ireland.
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The Freedom of Flexibility: Lessons from the Child Characters in Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor had a penchant for repetition, often revisiting the same character types, plot devices, and overriding ideas in two or more stories. This repetition always goes hand in hand with reinterpretation. Even when the characters and plots seem suspiciously similar, the differences signal …
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