She's famous for her bookishness, as much as her witchcraft.
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Orringer's scrupulous research into this turbulent period goes far beyond bookishness.
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That bookishness may mark Chiron as unmasculine to his peers, who bully him.
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I'm gung-ho, my brain bursting with ideas and the bookishness to back it up.
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Usually there tends to be some sort of sweetness in what I'm offered, or bookishness.
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He shares his reading with a more politically aware friend, almost embarrassed by his own bookishness.
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" Gradually, over the course of the 19th and 20th centuries, middle-class Americans were taught to aspire to bookishness, with the general understanding that bookishness would always be a moral good: "To be a reader is better than to not be a reader," McGregor summarizes, "but one kind of reading or book is not better than another.
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But Chiron's "difference" as a boy and teen in the movie is mostly represented as a kind of universal bookishness or shyness.
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We then jump to his college days, during which he dwells in an attic apartment and, as expected, punctuates his bookishness with love and sex.
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Though she considers herself an appellate lawyer — a breed known for its bookishness — those who know her say her erudition is matched by her courtroom presence and her commitment to civil rights.
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Both contain literary allusions; Mitchell was drawn to Cohen's bookishness: Just before our love got lost you said I am as constant as a northern star and I said Constantly in the darkness Where's that at?
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But the intellectual amplitude and the moral seriousness are fortifying and instructive, and a solid realism undergirds most of the bookishness: this is a plausible picture of an intellectual at work—the character within the novel, and the author outside it.
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The smell of books is a particular obsession in popular culture; you can buy candles or perfumes that try to approximate it, and on TV, characters who love books are always demonstrating their bookishness by waxing poetic about the smell.
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But let's say you want to try to impress a potential lover with your bookishness, or you run into your high school AP teacher and want to make them believe you're a lot smarter than they thought at the time.
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I have no doubt his extreme oddness, bookishness, dabbles in the occult, fantasies of invincibility, though they failed to provide him with a proper chemical formula for mummifying his lady's corpse, supplied him copiously with lore, ritual, history, chants, prayers for launching her into immortality.
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The fact is, as beautiful as the scene in the show is, it never captures (and, notably, doesn't try to capture) the eerie meta quality of the source, its self-conscious textuality—Ferrante's fluid, ticklish bookishness , that sense of a voice in our ear.
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Sleeping with her married ex is often pointed to as the first indication that Rory isn't perfect, but it's a season 2 episode when she misses her mother's college graduation that first illuminates the fact that, for all her charm and bookishness, Rory thinks primarily of herself.
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Set in the same era as the novel, the ballet opens with a laborious exposition of the adoption of Elizabeth (Laura Morera) into Victor's family, then long childhood-play scenes morphing into the adults doing the same thing (mostly throwing a journal around to signify simultaneous bookishness and fun).
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Amid the legal dictates and the compassionate gestures, there's a smell of snobbery here, such as only England can emit, and a reluctance to confront an ungainly truth: that bookishness and cultivation, so treasured by those who possess them, are no guarantee of human value, let alone of one's status in the eyes of the law.
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At some point, the word took on connotations of bookishness and social ineptitude. An alternate spelling,The many spellings of Nurd, Fall 1970 (revised online 2015) as nurd or gnurd, also began to appear in the mid-1960s or early 1970s.
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Baba disapproves of his son's bookishness, and complains to his friend and business associate Rahim Khan that the boy doesn't stand up for himself, letting Hassan fight his battles for him. Amir overhears this conversation and Rahim Khan goes to Amir's room to assure him that his father loves him. Amir says that he believes that his father resents him because Amir's mother died in childbirth. Rahim Khan also encourages Amir to keep writing.
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Eustace tells Boniface in confession of the events of the day, which he suspects may have been a punishment for his uncharitable interpretation of Philip's adventure; he is irked by the Abbot's pompous and patronising attitude but submits to his authority. Ch. 11: Two or three years pass. Eustace tries in vain to persuade Elspet and Edward that the lad should become a novice. Halbert rejects Edward's bookishness and summons the White Lady in a secluded ravine.
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Nishiyama Sōin was a haikai-no-renga poet of the early Tokugawa period. He founded the Danrin school of haikai poetry, which aimed to move away from the serious 'bookishness' popular in Japanese poetry at the time and become more in touch with the common people, infusing a spirit of greater freedom into their poetry. Sōin's haikai (comical renga) became the transition between the light and clever haikai of Matsunaga Teitoku and the more serious and aesthetic renku of Matsuo Bashō.
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It aimed to move away from the serious "bookishness" popular in Japanese poetry at the time and to become more in touch with the common people, therefore infusing a greater spirit of freedom into their poetry. The Danrin school favored the usage of plain language, everyday subjects, and the use of humor. Its members explored people's daily life for sources of playfulness, though they were often accused of ending up with mere frivolity. The renowned poet Matsuo Bashō was once a member of the Danrin school, though he later broke away from it.
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His geeky bookishness is coupled with a razor-sharp wit that unfortunately has a habit of manifesting itself at the worst times. Flynn really hates being corrected. He is a bit awkward meeting women, and his mother is constantly trying to set him up on dates. Over his first 10 years as Librarian, he is too busy globe-trotting and fighting evil to maintain a relationship, and after the deaths of two great loves he stays clear of emotional entanglements until he meets Colonel Eve Baird in the first episode of the TV series.
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It was one of the first European portraits to portray a black subject on an equal eye-line with a white aristocrat, though distinctions are implied by the poses, as Elizabeth's "formality and bookishness are contrasted with the wild and exotically turbanned 'natural' figure of Belle."Bindman, David, & Henry Louis Gates, The Image of the Black in Western Art, Harvard University Press, 2010, xviii.English Heritage, The painting is replicated in the film with the faces of the actresses portraying the characters replacing those in the original. Dido's finger-to-cheek gesture is absent in the fictionalised version, as is her feathered turban.
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The heroines in McKinley's books reflect certain qualities that she saw in herself as a young woman: clumsiness, plainness, bookishness, and disinterest in the usual social games that involve flirting and dating. In her Newbery Award acceptance speech, she said, "I didn't discover boys because they didn't discover me, and because their standards of discovery seemed to me too odd to be aspired to. They were the ones who got to have adventures, while we got to—well, not have adventures." McKinley says she writes about strong heroines because she feels very strongly about the potential for girls to be "doing things", and she feels that the selection of fantasy literature featuring girls is scarce and unsatisfactory.
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" George Myers Jr. compared it to Edward Allen's novel Mustang Sally, calling it "another of those in-joke English Department novels that burlesques bookishness while thumbing the nose at ProfWorld." Michael Upchurch, of The Seattle Times, wrote that Grudin himself called it "a novel about the consequences of a creative act." Upchurch saw the novel as "autobiographical in theme," based on "the reaction Grudin got whenever he presented his colleagues and supervisors with an unconventional publication." Ultimately, Upchurch praised the book as "eloquent on the mysterious contract between creator and creation, and persuasive in cautioning against works of art being picked apart too cavalierly," and he predicted that Book might convince some English professors "to reinstate a back-to-basics core curriculum.
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The author's female characters play peripheral roles, and the character's obsessive collecting and self-absorption alienate him from relationships with females, who at times encourage him to find meaning in life outside comics—advice he ignores. The book highlights the overwhelmingly masculine homosociality of the collector's world, which Seth hints at with the name of the "Book Brothers" book store the character frequents. In one panel, the store sign is obscured so that only "Book Brothe" is visible, suggesting a "Book Brothel", and thus evoking the fetishism inherent in collecting. The intelligent Ruthie provides a love interest that nevertheless manages only to feed Seth's self-absorption: he is attracted to her physically and also to her bookishness, but she takes second place in his life to his obsession with Kalo, whose real name she discovers for him.
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Poet and literary critic Hilary Anne Clark has commented on the formal difficulties that Paradis presents to readers: > Philippe Sollers' Paradis contains a ... major block to comprehension in > that it lacks any form of visual punctuation to guide the reader in making > sense, in reconstituting its units of meaning. Each page of Paradis is a > solid, unbroken mass of words, whose visual density is further emphasized by > the use of a very black, italicized typescript. Lacking the visual landmarks > provided by conventional punctuation practice, the reader can neither > encompass the entire work, nor often decide where one unit of sense takes up > from a preceding unit or gives way to a succeeding one. Clark goes on to cite Paradis as an example of an encyclopedic tendency in literature, comparing it to Joyce's Finnegans Wake and Pound's Cantos: > The dominance of the encyclopaedic gesture in Finnegans Wake, Paradis and > the Cantos allows us to account for the characteristic length, obscurity and > "bookishness" of these works; they absorb the traits and tensions of essay, > Menippean satire and epic while yet exceeding these traits in their > fictional translation of the encyclopaedic paradoxes noted above.
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