10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BETES NOIRES»
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betes noires in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
betes noires and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
... originally named Candece Blanc, Jean Luc le: see Gil Guignard *Borromeo:
Vampire who proposes Franz for membership Cadou, Moricz: Vampire on the
Board of Directors of Les Bêtes Noires (Hungarian) Camail, Curcio de: Raoul's
squire ...
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Garner's Modern American Usage
The plural form remains the French bêtes noires, as opposed to the more fully
anglicized *bête noires—e.g.: • “Parisian motorists' particular bêtes noires are the
women police auxiliaries in bright blue uniforms who slap instant fines on
illegally ...
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The Politics of Social Ties: Immigrants in an Ethnic Homeland
93 Ibid., 68;Todd Shepard, “PiedsNoirs, Betes Noires: Anti'Europeanof Algeria'
Racism and the Close of the French Empire,” Algeria and France: Identity,
Memory, Nostalgia,ed. Patricia M.E. Lorcin (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University
Press, ...
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Exploding The Creativity Myth: The Computational Foundations ...
Poster boys and Bêtes Noires Words that evoke strong emotions or deeply-held
beliefs can easily slip from the moorings of their literal meanings. Because the
link between these words and the feelings they evoke is so strong, the feelings ...
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Beyond Arthurian Romances: The Reach of Victorian Medievalism
Pugin's bêtes noires were on the whole men he considered hostile to Catholicism
or to Gothic.79 Yet, those bêtes noires—Henry VIII, Cranmer, Wyatt,
neoclassicists, and architectural speculators—are also indicted for the crimes
against ...
Jennifer Palmgren, Lorretta M. Holloway, 2005
bêtes Noires * From the start, Sontag had certain pet dislikes, the principal ones
being “realism,” “naturalism,” “psychology,” and “humanism,” almost always
placed in quotes, to show that they were charlatans unaware of their fallacy and ...
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Pandora's Lunchbox: How Processed Food Took Over the ...
Wiley's most crushing disappointment might be the fact that a hundred years later
, we're still consuming his old bêtes noires— sodium benzoate and saccharin.
Banned for use in food in 1911 and then un-banned during World War I,
saccharin ...
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Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage
When a sum of money is specified, only bet is possible (He bet me £50 he would
win). béte noire is always written with the final e. The plural is betes noires, with
both s's silent. better. 1 HAD BETTER. This common idiom is used in the form We
...
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Home Divisions: Aristocracy, the State and Provincial Conflict
... old betes noires from Laudian church reforms to f1scal feudalism assume a
decidedly benign visage. The new prescription finds the best illustration of the
decade, not in William Prynne's denunciations of a corrupt court, but rather in the
Earl ...
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Comparative Politics: Critical Concepts in Political Science
... important role that centralized, mobilizing politics could play in their countries
after independence. Western imperial powers were not only the betes noires in
the transition from colony to statehood; they were models to be emulated as well.
7 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BETES NOIRES»
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betes noires is used in the context of the following news items.
Courting popularity is a very taxing business for the Adams family
... the roof was raised for the party's deputy leader who delivered a typically spiky speech, throwing digs at favourite Labour betes noires. «Irish Independent, Mar 15»
Why The Right-Meets-Left Alliance On Justice Reform Is Not As Odd …
The Koch brothers, stock villains of all right-thinking liberals, joining forces with such conservative betes noires as the ACLU and the Center for ... «Huffington Post, Feb 15»
For a Super Bowl winner, just pick six
The 2008 Shia LaBeouf action flick "Eagle Eye" combined two TMQ betes noires: bottomless pits and single switches that destroy things. «ESPN, Jan 15»
Bringing matters to a head: A few complaints about beer service
Last week, Irene Virbila gave us her wine service pet peeves (and asked for yours), and here are my betes noires about ordering craft beer. «Los Angeles Times, Nov 14»
'Lincoln and the Power of the Press' and 'Founders' Son'
... of the past even reached back, in Holzer's account, to one of his betes noires of the past, Andrew Jackson, in defense of press suppression. «Boston Globe, Oct 14»
Illustration: Bill Leak Source: TheAustralian
Leys' guiding star was cultivation (in a broad sense) and his betes noires barbarism, stupidity and humbug. There was no better sniffer out of ... «The Australian, Aug 14»
Bedbugs are my betes noires
It was with a little shiver of remembered horror that I read last week that bedbugs are on the march. They have already taken over New York ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Sep 10»
