10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «BIEN-PENSANT»
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bien-pensant in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
bien-pensant and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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From Bonbon to Cha-cha: Oxford Dictionary of Foreign Words ...
A specified period of two years. bien pensant /bjé ptisti/ adjective 8 noun phrase
Also bien-pensant (plural pronounced same) E20 French (bien well, pensant
present participle of penser to think). A adjective phrase Conventional or
orthodox in ...
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How to Sound Really Clever: 600 Words You Need to Know
... and pensant, participle of penser: to think; 'bien pensant' literally means 'right—
thinking' e.g. English actors who make it in Hollywood often turn into bien
pensant tree-huggers bildungsroman (noun) I a novel covering one person's
formative ...
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Du Singe Au Superman: L'evolution D'Adam Et Eve, À Partir Du ...
Car le plus grand espoir est l'espoir en Allah, de même, le plus grand rêve est le
rêve dans le sentier d'Allah. Pour cela, l'espoir en Allah, en ayant confiance en lui
et bien pensant de lui, était l'entité de la confiance en Allah; cette confiance ...
Jamal Nassar Hussein, Jamal Nassar Hussein / Traduit Par VartéNie Pamboukian, 2011
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A Charitable Body: A Novel of Suspense
bien-pensant,. and the artistic. You've gotto admit that Timmy Quarles did a
prettygood job.” “I can't see how hesolved his financial problems through raking
in thefairly smallsums mentionedhere,” said Mary-Elizabeth, dismissiveas usual
of ...
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Oxford Dictionary of English
7noun (bien-pensant) a conventional or orthodox person. – origin French, from
bien 'well' + pensant, present participle of penser 'think'. bier /bɪə/ 7noun a
movable frame on which a coffin or a corpse is placed before burial or cremation
or on ...
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Bernanos: His Political Thought and Prophecy
Bien-pensant means literally "right-thinking." In French political-ideological
terminology it signifies the bourgeois elements (rich peasants, shop-keepers,
small town notables) and holders of socially prominent positions not only in
commerce ...
The militant is, to use another of Lefort's phrases, the bien-pensant who, even
when he disagrees with the practice of the party — even in the gulag or at the
purge trials — thinks correctly, goes along for the sake of a future and against a
past ...
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Pound in Purgatory: From Economic Radicalism to Anti-semitism
Hollis was much more sympathetic to Keynes, remarking in a letrer of 3
September 1 936, "Keynes very bien pensant these days" (Pound Papers).
Pound could not let that pass: "Keynes 'bien pensant' from WHOSE pt/ of view. St
Nitouche?
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The Savant and the State: Science and Cultural Politics in ...
183 As a battering ram against scientism, such a profile of opinions would have
evoked supportive murmurs in any educated bien pensant bourgeois home. In
bien pensant minds, a similarly favorable chord would have been struck by Paul
...
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Moving Targets: Women, Murder and Representation
The gender of the sisters is visible only when they are being perceived as
potential victims: when their bien-pensant look enables the speaker to voice his
hatred of bien-pensant women - it is as if what had to be murdered was precisely
this ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «BIEN-PENSANT»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
bien-pensant is used in the context of the following news items.
Irish in crisis – we need a New Deal to revitalise the language
The strategy is devoid of analytical foundation, diagnostic rigour or strategic relevance – bien-pensant but unengaged and of limited practical ... «Irish Times, Jun 15»
Oliver Kamm
'Few things,' says Toby Young, 'are more likely to provoke the disapproval of the bien-pensant left than criticising someone's grammar. «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 15»
Ignore the 'good grammar' crowd and your prose will be better for it
... 'are more likely to provoke the disapproval of the bien-pensant left ... my colleagues in the Metropolitan Media branch of the bien-pensant left ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 15»
Londoner's Diary: Alan Yentob tempts Boris to take over Top Gear
Eagleton, by chance, gave Crapanzano's recent book, Recapitulations, a frosty review, calling him “a well-heeled bien-pensant New York ... «Evening Standard, Jun 15»
How to succeed in the music industry
Electronic musician Moby was scorned by bien-pensant music fans when his 1999 hit album Play became the first to have every track licensed ... «Financial Times, May 15»
How dedicated a fascist was Le Corbusier?
Old lefties, cause-whores, apologists for collective farms and famines, pogroms and Beria, bien-pensant supporters of the FLN, Palestinian ... «Spectator.co.uk, May 15»
Obama, Bush and Carson believe this nonsense? Our faith-addled …
Such turns of phrase suit the sermon of an 18th-century Puritan pulpiteer, or at best the ramblings of some pious, bien-pensant pedant, not a ... «Salon, May 15»
Left strives to keep students in the dark
... books on environmental issues are heavily cited, including by an array of the bien-pensant that ranges from Barack Obama to Ban Ki-moon. «The Australian, May 15»
Labour's latest video might be enough to make me change my vote
You stupid, opportunist, bien-pensant. But the above video might be the thing which finally does it. I was sent it by the party to which I pay ... «Spectator.co.uk, May 15»
Episode Seven: Panic the Kippers
They alternate between trying to make him seem weak, flaky, a puppet of the unions, a milquetoast Hampstead bien-pensant; or ruthlessly ... «London Review of Books, Apr 15»
