"Did you ever hear such innocent prattle?" said its father.
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Her seriousness of intent is not the stuff of literary prattle.
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Women's speech, however, its pitch and prattle, was considered dangerous, even unsanitary.
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Our marriage is built for goofy, all-day, amazed prattle about our children.
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Perhaps part of what Slobodchikoff deems prairie-dog language is just useless prattle.
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They aren't, however, sufficient for drowning out the thunderous prattle of a loud co-worker.
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All night, he'd prattle on with stories of armed robberies or drug deals gone bad.
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" And in 2015, he panned the "preachers of pessimism" who "prattle endlessly about America's problems.
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Yet as with "The Illusionists: Turn of the Century," this golden age prattle is strictly plating.
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There are too many characters, too much tactical and technical explanation, too much pseudo-political prattle.
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A small hassle under any other circumstances, but on this night it made a skittish pop star prattle.
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After an earnings call, for example, Prattle provides a score, as well as the sentiment of every speaker.
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Instead, Prattle is making it more efficient to mine proven sources of market-moving information by using advanced computing techniques.
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They had stifled his academic career, he believed, and weakened the country with their prattle about making peace with the Palestinians.
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After she made him change, he reentered wearing a full suit, and began to prattle on without asking her any questions.
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People are quick to prattle on about lack of sleep when warning new parents, however, they are mysteriously secretive about the noise.
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"We're quantifying what wasn't quantifiable before," said Schnidman, a game theorist who taught at Brown University and Harvard University before founding Prattle.
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The very sound of their voices, it was believed, could sink the state Its pitch and prattle — dangerous — proof of their wickedness.
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"There are too many characters, too much tactical and technical explanation, too much pseudo-political prattle," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
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Many companies unconsciously identify leadership skills with extroversion—that is, a willingness to project the ego, press the flesh and prattle on in public.
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Left alone with a star, I was nervous -- and whenever I get nervous, I start to prattle on with a story that goes on forever.
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I love that "cotillions," which suggests a young, vulnerable person's idea of majesty and rebirth, as against the armored cosmic prattle of her noncompliant knight.
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It's the kind of utopian prattle that can come off as dangerously out of touch at a moment when a backlash against big tech is brewing.
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People with varying qualifications prattle about a subject in a way that's supposed to be entertaining, occasionally bumping into an illuminating fact or idea while doing so.
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There's a chance he'd derail the ceremony, berate the dead for not bending his knee to him, or just prattle on about himself for way too long.
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This hasn't yet happened to its central bank service, according to Schnidman, who said Prattle will keep investing in the offering to prevent a loss in effectiveness.
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So all that&aposs eft for the Democrats to prattle on about are all these side issues, like Cable News Catnip, irrelevant to the loves of most people.
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Even if you want to tell your ride-hail driver to STFU and drive in silence, most of us hold our tongues and let the driver prattle on.
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Prattle, a firm that analyzes Fed speeches, said Wednesday that it would see a clear signal for a March rate hike only if all upcoming Fed speakers tilt hawkish.
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"I'm impressed with Hitler's ability to use socialist prattle when necessary, and then discard it," Jastrow tells guests over a wine-filled lunch, weeks before the outbreak of war.
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While we prattle on about how much we have to be grateful for, some of us kill with cruelty for the sake of fashion, or simply out of habit.
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Venture-capital backed Prattle will begin offering a new service Monday that quantifies and scores the language used in earnings calls and reports filed by 3,000 U.S. public companies.
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So far Prattle has predicted outcomes from the nuanced language of central bankers with 98 percent accuracy in the year and a half that it has offered the service.
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It would be the easiest thing in the world to paint everyone in attendance as crystal worshippers who place their faith in dodgy alternative healers and prattle about little green men.
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If this room once seemed quiet—isolated from the noise of conversation, the prattle of the TV, the trill of music—it has since shed that illusion and revealed a more elevated noise.
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Its creators, the Institute for Digital Archaeology, will eagerly prattle on about the advanced imaging technology used to recreate the building from photographs, but the fact is that it looks absolutely nothing like the original.
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It does simulate a real class in that as you watch the two men prattle on about how to properly fundraise and harness the power of social media and yadda yadda yadda, your mind drifts.
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I go weeks at a time without reading you, leaving you to prattle on thinking you have my attention -- or worse, stew in your own nasty juices, yelling in all caps, imagining that I'm listening.
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Let's be real though, the COVID-19 situation is going to be the event that launches a million podcasts, as we're all stuck at home with hours to prattle on about things into the void.
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Cinematic cutscenes are few and far between, and while some of the mission-givers have a tendency to prattle on for a bit too long, this is an easy story to shove aside in favor of gameplay.
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You are not your name, bullies are just cowards, and when your parents or whoever pressure you to go sit and watch a human apricot prattle on and on, there's only one suitable response: Just fall asleep.
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Offred, wearing a uniform of prim hood and draping gown — its color might be described as Nathaniel Hawthorne Scarlet — is in the supermarket, moving past armed guards and listening to other hooded women prattle on about oranges.
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The businessman can prattle on about his jealousies and insecurities and meaningless requests as long as he wants, but, if he's not going to give Angel a real reason to leave her lucrative position, nothing he says matters.
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"Fading Frontier," the band's seventh studio album, released last fall, is a strange, brilliant meditation on perseverance through adversity and an ode to Mr. Cox's many tuneful obsessions — and it's fully evocative of his eccentric stage prattle, too.
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Kelly grilled him on questions about alleged Russian meddling in the U.S. election, NATO, and Syria, and Putin didn't shy away: On reports of Russia meddling in U.S. election: "We should stop this idle prattle, which is harmful," said Putin.
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But it was the first to do so in the format that now seems completely natural for it: an endlessly scrolling, eternally accessible record of prattle and wit and venom that felt less like a publication than like a place.
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They prattle and joke over dinner about future wealth, about schemes for advancement, about what they would give to live in a place where they didn't have to stand on top of the toilet to get a Wi-Fi signal.
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The chapter is mostly made up of faintly (and not-so-faintly) ignorant rednecks who prattle on about their own superiority and sense of grievance that their pure white ways of life are being distorted and corrupted by the Jews and the blacks.
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SpaceKnow, a satellite imaging company that looks for clues on economic activity in China and Africa, raised $4m this year, while Prattle, a sentiment analysis company that uses artificial intelligence to turn material such as central bank speeches into tradable intelligence, raised $3.3m.
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Such prattle as that here, that relies on abstractions and imagery meant to be shocking, is beneath the dignity of excellent poetry for example written by the likes of Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Gwendolyn Brooks, Philip Levine, and Adrienne Rich.
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I started to lose patience with my neighbors and their daily prattle and stopped noticing all the thoughtful details that once delighted me: the soft glow of fireflies on summer evenings, the fleeting shadow of an owl in flight, the falling petals in spring.
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" - Sue, 57 "I generally avoid shows with gratuitous sexual violence (especially when that violence is subjected on female characters to be used as a plot device for their male partners), so listening to my coworkers prattle on about it for the past few years has been a little grating.
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More prattle about brain injuries, numberless accusations of drug abuse and domestic abuse, and a complete missing of the point that the vote was not to allow MMA or not, it was on whether people can be paid for it in that state and whether the athletic commission should regulate it.
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They have a greater presence in the public sphere than at any point in the last half century, and have shown themselves willing to expose the prattle of thought leaders, to attack the rhetorical smoke screens of the liberal center, and to defend working-class voters against accusations of incurable racism and mindless populism.
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"God help us if we have to listen to Adam SchiffAdam Bennett SchiffThe Hill's Morning Report - House prosecutes Trump as 'lawless,' 'corrupt' What to watch for on Day 3 of Senate impeachment trial Democrats' impeachment case lands with a thud with GOP — but real audience is voters MORE and the House Democrats prattle on for 24 hours nonstop," Cruz told reporters. Sen.
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Thanks heaps for dinner and the drinks, and listening to me prattle on for a couple of hours!
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On Sundays the mistress would give him a gingerbread or a cracknel, and amuse herself with his baby prattle.
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The effect on most of us will be an attack of acute crapulence, caused by our forced overconsumption of political prattle and forensic flatulence.
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I was almost crazy at the sight. Twenty months old! How she must > prattle by this time! I fancy I can see her trotting about, following you > around the house.
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To where your place is, comrade! Join up with the workers' United Front, for you are a worker too! And because a person is a person, he will need clothes and shoes! Prattle will not keep him warm, and neither will the drums [of war].
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The Call (San Francisco), Vol. 74, Number 179, November 26, 1893. Bierce, who was 36 years older, became an alternative father figure for him and as a mentor criticized, encouraged and nurtured his poetic sensibility. Bierce published a number of his poems in his own "Prattle" columns.
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That > said, the dangers posed by fringe therapists arise principally in three > ways. One is the potential for manipulation and fraud. Cult-like pseudo- > therapies can prey on the dependency needs of vulnerable people while > extracting unconscionable amounts of money. The nonsensical prattle of > Scientology is but one example.
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Tantalus, "Social Prattle", San Francisco Daily Times (May 18, 1918), p. 13."Musicians Now are Pledged", Dramatic Mirror of Motion Pictures and the Stage (June 29, 1918), p. 915. She was also president of the San Francisco Light Opera Company."Camille D'Arville, Opera Star, Dies", The New York Times (September 11, 1932), p. 30.
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Bierce took decades to write his lexicon of satirical definitions. He warmed up by including definitions infrequently in satirical essays, most often in his weekly columns "The Town Crier" or "Prattle". His earliest known definition was published in 1867.Bierce’s definition of “San Francisco lady” appeared in his essay “Selling Tickets” in the Californian, v.
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He was wounded in action when in command of the 1st Field Ambulance, at Eaucourt L'Abbaye, when shot through the left shoulder and the lung on 2 March 1917 by an "indiscriminate sniper"."Lieutenant-Colonel M.L. Williams—Seriously Wounded—A Popular Officer", The Bendigo Advertiser, 13 Mar. 1917, p. 5; Prattle About People, (Melbourne) Punch, (Thursday, 22 March 1917), p.6.
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Noke is a small village and civil parish in Oxfordshire about northeast of Oxford. It is on the southeast edge of Otmoor and is one of the "Seven Towns of Otmoor". The toponym is derived from Old English and means "at the oak trees". The parish still has two woodlands: Prattle Wood about southwest of the village, and Noke Wood about to the southeast.
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In May 2019, Liquidnet acquired RSRCHXchange, a marketplace and aggregator for institutional research to help embed a new level of research and analytics into the investment process. In June 2019, Liquidnet acquired Prattle, a provider of automated investment research solutions for portfolio managers, research analysts, and other financial professionals. In February 2020, founder Seth Merrin stepped down as CEO of Liquidnet. Company President Brian Conroy has been selected as his successor.
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Advised by Calcutta's progenitors Dandabayash (ageless primordial talking crow) and an Indo-colonial half-breed Begum Johnson(1732-1818) erupt a historic insurrection. They jointly launch guerrilla attacks against the Government. Skulls dance in crematoria and flying-discs flutter in the skies and cry anarchy, resident ghosts gossip and prattle, and the police is in total confusion. Government is forced to surrender and offer a peace proposal to the joint force.
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The word 'say' in the penultimate lines of the first two verses I was at first inclined to regard as a corruption for 'pray,' which is the usual reading. But the Rev. Allen Brockington thought that 'say' was merely used intransitively, as is not unusual in Somerset, for 'talk,' i.e. 'prattle.' As this is at least a possible explanation I have retained the word that Mr. Rapsay sang.
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The film begins on Ranga (Akkineni Nageswara Rao) a jovial loaf, lives with his sister Lachamma (Pushpa Kumari) & niece Ganga (Vijayalalitha). He credits prattle of an astrologer (Allu Ramalingaiah) that a wealthy woman couples him along with Rs.30 Lakhs of property. Besides, Zamindar Raja Shekaram (Nagabhushanam) a millionaire whose only heir is granddaughter Radha (Vanisri). Once Radha is acquainted with Ranga in an accident when she sweets on him.
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But those crafts which are not useful like "witch-craft" have no place in modern society. Today the so-called Modern Artists who are better than such craftsmen, when called upon to explain the purpose of their art, prattle, "We create 'Form', 'Colour composition' or 'Symbol'". They go no further and expect the visitor to appreciate and explain their jargon themselves. Line, form, colour, texture or tones are just elements of the language of art.
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Weir, David. Decadent culture in the United States: art and literature against the American grain, 1890–1926, SUNY Press, 2007, p. 144. Sterling also supplied lyric for the musical numbers at the 1918 Grove play. Bierce, who acclaimed Sterling's poem The Testimony of the Suns, in his "Prattle" column in William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, arranged for the publication of A Wine of Wizardry in the September 1907 number of Cosmopolitan, which afforded Sterling some national notice.
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They meet every two weeks so that Boy can prattle on about Leola and all the other girls he is enjoying. Dunstan is jealous, but that doesn't stop him from taking Boy's investment tips. 2\. After college, Dunstan takes a job as a schoolmaster that he will keep until the retirement party of the second chapter of this book. 3\. Boy and Leola are married and travel to Europe, and Dunstan visits the continent for his own amusements. 4\.
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" Terrence Rafferty from The New York Times stated Godzilla was "an obvious gigantic, unsubtle, grimly purposeful metaphor for the atomic bomb" and felt the film was "extraordinarily solemn, full of earnest discussions". Mark Jacobson from the website of New York magazine stated that Godzilla "transcends humanist prattle. Very few constructs have so perfectly embodied the overriding fears of a particular era. He is the symbol of a world gone wrong, a work of man that once created cannot be taken back or deleted.
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Critical reception for the book was mixed to positive, with the Guardian summarizing it as "Old dog, old tricks." In contrast, the Hindustan Times gave a more positive review, calling it a "potboiler" while also stating it would be a "chart topper". The Sydney Morning Herald and Times Live both gave mostly positive reviews, with the Sydney Morning Herald noting that although the book contained "circumlocutory prattle of needless talk", that it did not ruin their enjoyment of the novel.
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January 22, 1867. Accessed May 11, 2008 In 1946, the centennial issue of Town & Country reported that Willis "led a generation of Americans through a gate where weeds gave way to horticulture". More modern scholars have dismissed Willis's work as "sentimental prattle" or refer to him only as an obstacle in the progress of his sister as well as Harriet Jacobs.Tomc, 799–800 As biographer Thomas N. Baker wrote, Willis is today only referred to as a footnote in relation to other authors.
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It was her good fortune that she did not make rhymes easily. Had she possessed the fatal facility of some young persons in emitting jingle, she might, like them, have been tempted into pouring out profusely a weak wash of metrical prattle, which can he called poetry only by the same license which allows sound to be called music or words eloquence. But her sense of precision and proportion kept back the flood. Like Lowell, most accurate and idiomatic of out poets, Mrs.
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I do not swing from side to side and prattle! Why, even those who torture their bodies and suffer the pains of asceticism for years, until anthills overwhelm them and they become as stiff as tree-stumps, find it difficult to realise the Lord. How then can these idlers, who eat their fill and wander about as slaves of their senses, earn that status so cheap? Their gestures, words and actions are hollow and vain; those who burn incense before them and revere them are turning away from Me and running after falsehood.
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Sarash (Uyghur: ساراش) came from the word Sayrash (in Uyghur: سايراش). The meaning of Sarash in English is translated to: 1) To sing, call (of birds); 2) to prattle on; to chatter; to gabble; to talk on and on. Sarash is a nickname given by a group of people to a person who is always complaining about unfair rules of government, bad society, unjust treatment to ones-self by group of people, and mostly to the person who is speaking against the government in Kashgar, and other parts of the Uyghuria. Sarash is using as a family name by some Uyghurs now.
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Bannister, from Capital Radio, favoured a young, racy, news and speech format, miles away from the typically stuffy BBC Local Radio sound. Dann came from Radio 1, via BBC TV's Whistle Test, and developed an album- oriented music policy. GLR was aimed at people who hate pop but love music, hate prattle (excessive on-air talk) but want to know what's what where in the world. The station was aimed at 25- to 45-year-olds, who perhaps grew up with Radio 1, but now wanted to be intelligently informed about the city in which they live, and the world in general.
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Shi Huifeng, Is "Illusion" a Prajñāpāramitā Creation? The Birth and Death of a Buddhist Cognitive Metaphor, Fo Guang University, Journal of Buddhist Philosophy , Vol.2, 2016. According to Shi Huifeng, the terms void (rittaka), hollow (tucchaka) and coreless (asāraka) are also used in the early texts to refer to words and things which are deceptive, false, vain and worthless. This sense of worthlessness and vacuousness is also found in other uses of the term māyā, such as the following: > “Monks, sensual pleasures are impermanent, hollow, false, deceptive; they > are illusory (māyākatame), the prattle of fools.” The Suñña Sutta,.
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The title allows many different interpretations. Directly translated, it means "land of fibers"Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Faserland foreign rights, a possible reference to the narrator's recurring fixation on clothing, in particular his Barbour jacket. Other meanings that could be read into the title are the verbs zerfasern ("to fray"), referring to the fraying of society, and faseln ("to prattle on" or "to blather"). It also is similar to the English word "Fatherland" spoken with a German accent, and hence was interpreted as an allusion to Robert Harris' 1992 novel Fatherland, which presented an alternative history setting in which Nazi Germany won World War II.
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Mary considers blasphemous his claim that his ideas are facing the persecutions of the early Christians. Mr. Nankivell, father of the boy he put in splints, claims that his leg is significantly shorter because he fixed it wrong, and is suing him for malpractice, claiming that he operated while drunk. All Mahony can argue is that he should go to another doctor to have it corrected, as it's not an exact science, he was working under less than optimal conditions, and surgery was never his greatest strength as a physician. Richard experiences surrealistic nightmares in which he watches himself prattle on in court like a drunken fool.
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The film is set in the Kurdish refugee camp on the Iraqi-Turkish border on the eve of the US invasion of Iraq. Thirteen-year-old Satellite (Soran Ebrahim) is known for his installation of dishes and antennae (for local villages who are looking for news of Saddam Hussein) and for his limited knowledge of English. He is the dynamic, but manipulative leader of the children, organizing the dangerous but necessary sweeping and clearing of the minefields. Many of these children are injured one way or the other, yet still maintain a boisterous prattle whenever possible, devoted to their work in spite of the vagaries of their life.
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He despised the upscale journalism of the day—the seriousness of tone, the phlegmatic dignity, the party affiliations, the sense of responsibility. He believed journalists were fools to think that they could best serve their own purposes by serving the politicians. As Washington correspondent for the New York Enquirer, he wrote vivacious, gossipy prattle, full of insignificant and entertaining detail, to which he added keen characterization and deft allusions. Bennett saw a public who would not buy a serious paper at any price, who had a vast and indiscriminate curiosity better satisfied with gossip than discussion, with sensation rather than fact, who could be reached through their appetites and passions.
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Pizzo described his childhood in fondly poetic terms: > I like to think of the days of my youth in Ybor city ... recall the sights, > sounds and smells that enriched my childhood. Life was pleasant and > carefree, often exciting. I can still hear the chatter in Spanish and > Italian as the workers paraded to the long days of rolling cigars in the > factories; the rumbling of wagons and the clump of horses' hooves on the > brick streets delivering bottles of milk and loaves of Cuban bread before > sunrise... The mellifluous Latin prattle along the sidewalks in the evenings > was an enchantment. I can still hear the music from the ballrooms wafting on > the night air during festive occasions.
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On 16 March 1772 at the first performance of The Wife in the Right by Mrs Griffith, at Covent Garden, Quick was Squeezem, a lawyer. The prologue and epilogue met with applause later the play had to stop for half an hour, The play was not well received and some of the audience broke the chandeliers. On 5 June 1772 Quick was playing a theatre in Liverpool as Prattle in The Deuce is in him. At Covent Garden he was, on 8 December 1772, the original Consol in O'Brien's Cross Purposes, and on 6 February 1773 the original Momus in O'Hara's Golden Pippin. These performances paved the way for his triumph, on 14 March, as the original Tony Lumpkin in She Stoops to Conquer.
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The moment of horror that the readers experience at the end of the piece, when they realize that he dies, reflects the distortion of reality that Farquhar encounters. Since it is not (only) the narrator who tells a story but (also) the reader themself another aspect is of considerable importance here. As he himself once put it, Bierce detested "... bad readers—readers who, lacking the habit of analysis, lack also the faculty of discrimination, and take whatever is put before them, with the broad, blind catholicity of a slop-fed conscience of a parlor pig".Prattle, The San Francisco Argonaut, 22 June 1878, as quoted in F.J. Logan The Wry Seriousness of Owl Creek Bridge in: American Literary Realism, 10, No. 2 (Spring 1977), pp. 101–13.
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Glossolalia is from the Greek word γλωσσολαλία, itself a compound of the words γλῶσσα (glossa), meaning "tongue" or "language"γλῶσσα, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek–English Lexicon, on Perseus and λαλέω (laleō), "to speak, talk, chat, prattle, or to make a sound".λαλέω, Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek–English Lexicon, on Perseus The Greek expression (in various forms) appears in the New Testament in the books of Acts and First Corinthians. In Acts 2, the followers of Christ receive the Holy Spirit and speak in the languages of at least fifteen countries or ethnic groups. The exact phrase speaking in tongues has been used at least since the translation of the New Testament into Middle English in the Wycliffe Bible in the 14th century.
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Ryan wrote and directed the feature film Hosea (2019), a modern retelling of the Biblical myth through the eyes of the lesser-known character of the prophet's spouse. Ryan wrote, directed, and acted in the short film The Romantics (2014), which pits two lovers against each other in ever-increasing self-imposed dares of kitschy romance. The film appeared in the Woods Hole Film Festival, winning the Audience Award for Best Comedy.. Ryan wrote and co-directed (with Patrick Cavanaugh) the short film Prattle (2011), about two competitive and egotistical friends who make a bet to see which can meet and successfully propose to a woman online. The film appeared in the Napa Valley Film Festival, Bel Air Film Festival, Manhattan Film Festival and Cambridge Film Festival, as well as on Virgin Atlantic.
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Upon release, Jim Bohen of Daily Record described the song as a "decent hard rocker".Daily Record - Music notes - Jim Bohen - July 6, 1984 - page 24 Bob Andelman of St. Petersburg Times commented that the songs contributed by Cheap Trick, the Beach Boys and Heart "all have appealing hooks but are surrounded by prattle."St. Petersburg Times - Records - Bob Andelman - June 3, 1984 - page 2E Lawrence Van Gelder of The News-Press wrote: "Neither the music by the likes of Cheap Trick and the Beach Boys can elevate this movie from the ranks of failed derivations."Fort Myer News-Press - This time it's 'Up the Creek' without a reason - Lawrence Van Gelder - April 15, 1984 - page 10E In a review of the film, The Morning Call described the song as "awful".
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In his Chronicles Salimbene wrote that Frederick bade "foster-mothers and nurses to suckle and bathe and wash the children, but in no ways to prattle or speak with them; for he would have learnt whether they would speak the Hebrew language (which had been the first), or Greek, or Latin, or Arabic, or perchance the tongue of their parents of whom they had been born. But he laboured in vain, for the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments". Frederick was also interested in the stars, and his court was host to many astrologers and astronomers, including Michael Scot and Guido Bonatti.Little, Kirk, citing: He often sent letters to the leading scholars of the time (not only in Europe) asking for solutions to questions of science, mathematics and physics.
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The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds.; Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000, pp. 383–†384. After Bierce left The Wasp, he was hired by William Randolph Hearst to write for his newspaper The San Francisco Examiner in 1887. Bierce's first "Prattle" column appeared in the Examiner on March 5 of that year, and the next installment of his satirical lexicon appeared in the 4 September 1887 issue on page 4, under the title "The Cynic's Dictionary". Bierce wrote one more “The Cynic's Dictionary” column (which ran in the 29 April 1888 Examiner, page 4), and then no more appeared for sixteen years.The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary, David E. Schultz and S. T. Joshi, eds.; Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000, p. 384. In the meantime, Bierce's idea of a "comic dictionary" was imitated by others, and his witty definitions were plagiarized without crediting him.
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The eldest of the five children- three girls and two boys: Lance, Florence Louise de Mole (1881–1966) (later Mrs. Feldtmann),Perth Prattle: Matrimonial, The (Perth) Sunday Times, (Sunday, 20 August 1911), p.26. Winifred Emily de Mole (1886–1903),Special Notice: Deaths: De Mole, The (Adelaide) Register, (Saturday 21 March 1903), p.4. Clive Moulden de Mole (1886–1934),Family Notices: Deaths: de Mole, The West Australian, (Thursday, 22 March 1934), p.1. and Gladys Rose de Mole (1887–1979) — of William Frederick de Mole (1852–1939), an architect and surveyor, and Emily de Mole (1858–1941), née Moulden, Lance de Mole was born in Willunga, South Australia, on 13 March 1880. His family moved to Victoria when he was 7 years old, and he was educated at the Melbourne Church of England Grammar School until 1891, and then at the Berwick Grammar School.
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The story has frequently been reprinted, and scholars and devotees of supernatural fiction often cite it as a classic of the genre. E. F. Bleiler wrote that the narrative in the Green Book "is probably the finest single supernatural story of the century, perhaps in the literature", and Michael Dirda has stated: "If I were to list the greatest supernatural short stories of all time, I would start with Arthur Machen’s 'The White People,' about a young girl’s unknowing initiation into an ancient, otherworldly cult." S. T. Joshi has called the diary "a masterpiece of indirection, a Lovecraft plot told by James Joyce", and H. P. Lovecraft himself wrote that "Machen's narrative, a triumph of skilful selectiveness and restraint, accumulates enormous power as it flows on in a stream of innocent childish prattle". As has been intimated above, Lovecraft adopted some of Machen's techniques and terminology for use in his Cthulhu Mythos stories.
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" An experiment allegedly carried out by Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II in the 13th century saw young infants raised without human interaction in an attempt to determine if there was a natural language that they might demonstrate once their voices matured. It is claimed he was seeking to discover what language would have been imparted into Adam and Eve by God. The experiments were recorded by the monk Salimbene di Adam in his Chronicles, who was generally extremely negative about Fredrick II (portraying his calamaties as parallel to the Biblical plagues in The Twelve Calamities of Emperor Frederick II) and wrote that Frederick encouraged "foster-mothers and nurses to suckle and bathe and wash the children, but in no ways to prattle or speak with them; for he would have learnt whether they would speak the Hebrew language (which he took to have been the first), or Greek, or Latin, or Arabic, or perchance the tongue of their parents of whom they had been born. But he laboured in vain, for the children could not live without clappings of the hands, and gestures, and gladness of countenance, and blandishments.
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