10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CLODDISHNESS»
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cloddishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cloddishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
... as duly received and paid, if it isn't too stupid and ugly. Into the fire you go, this
bundle of cloddishness and witlessness — Volusius's Annals — excellent toilet
paper. 37 Disreputable tavern, and you gang who hang out in OF CATULLUS 65.
Gaius Valerius Catullus, 1965
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
The insensibility supposed is inconsistent with the supposed sensibility, and
would manifest a cloddishness of temperament that would prove the poetic spirit
to be totally extinct. There is a murky sort of close horizoned future, however, we ...
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CLODHOPPER CLODHOPPERS CLODHOPPING CLODPATE CLODPATES
CLODPOLE ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
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Mesmerized: Powers of Mind in Victorian Britain
To them mesmerism was a dramatization of the mental cloddishness of a
population who were so unfit to make scientific judgments that they were
oblivious to their own ineptitude. One might assume that this state of affairs was a
problem of ...
5
The Consequences of Desire
Anderson had seen, on television and in the newspaper, houses only a few miles
from his own, twisted, askew, collapsed, crushed by the foot of a fairy tale ogre
who had trod in psychotic fury or possibly just insensitive cloddishness through ...
6
The New Testament As Literature: A Very Short Introduction
The syntax of their question amply demonstrates their cloddishness. A reader of
the text wants to say in response, ''The same way that one fed those people back
in chapter six with the other bread in the other deserted place!'' But Mark does ...
St. Petersburg Kyle Keefer Assistant Professor of Religious Studies Eckerd College, Florida, 2008
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The Blessing of Burntisland
Only, I have no hat. “I stand before you, uncovered,” I say to my hosts. There is a
man with a rough square beard that betokens cloddishness but whose canny
eyes suggest a more refined intellect; two others in the shadows; 66.
8
When Trumpets Call: Theodore Roosevelt After the White House
Bemoaning the cloddishness of bureaucrats, Taft explained that he was righting
the wrong by returning her settee and ordering a copy of it for the White House.
For Theodore there was an armload of peace offerings. The president apologized
...
9
Louise Pound: Scholar, Athlete, Feminist Pioneer
Even worse than the cloddishness of the men, Pound concludes, is the
compliance of the women: “And the girls of today stand for it, or think they have to
do so.”43 This is pretty astringent material for an alumni magazine piece on a
class's ...
When we call a thing earthy we impute cloddishness; by 'watery' we imply
insipidness; 'airy' is for something trivial. 'Fiery' has always a noble significance. It
denotes such things as faith, courage, genius. Earth lies heavy, and air is void,
and ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CLODDISHNESS»
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cloddishness is used in the context of the following news items.
'Me and Earl and the Dying Girl' Review: Funny Filmmaking Meets …
Mr. Reeves gets the cloddishness right. He keeps waving his arms like a cop directing traffic. Ms. Theron gets the adorable right. With a comic ... «Wall Street Journal, Jun 15»
The Words on This Bud Label Are Causing a Major Uproar
Some denizens of Reddit picked up on the label and reacted predictably, mocking not only the cloddishness of the label message, but Bud ... «TIME, Apr 15»
The Sony Hacks Are Goddamn Terrifying
There's some conversation that would be misread without context, or read correctly for its cloddishness. Our inboxes are increasingly our id, ... «Gizmodo, Dec 14»
Theater review: Theatre fans would be remiss to miss out on …
... Eberly may be too quickly persuaded that wife Imogen has cuckolded him, and as the Queen's son Cloten, he has a certain cloddishness. «Columbus Alive, Aug 14»
Shutdown and Default Considered Small Price to Pay for Banning …
To state that Obamacare ” is the worst thing since slavery” shows an insensitivity and cloddishness that is hard to take from such a brilliant ... «RH Reality Check, Oct 13»
Thank You, TSA, NSA, FBI, and CIA!
What all these headlines have in common is a kind of breathtaking cloddishness… an appreciation of government that is so naive that you ... «Daily Reckoning, Aug 13»
Google Interns; Joss Whedon's Shakespeare: Movies
Underneath the cloddishness and squalor lies something sadder: a terror of aging. A sequence set in a retirement community cracks ... «Bloomberg, Jun 13»
TYRRELL: Is it 2016 yet?
I cannot think of any conceivable melange of presidents and vice presidents in recent history who could surpass these two in cloddishness ... «Washington Times, May 13»
Not for British eyes only: the best British shows
His schemes almost always fail, usually due to the cloddishness of his companions. For example, Blackadder must rewrite Johnson's ... «Student Life, Feb 12»
Body Awareness Meets Emotional Obtuseness at Berkeley's Aurora
But Frank's slack-jawed cloddishness, in the portrayal by Howard Swain, pushes the tone beyond satire and toward cruelty. It's a cartoon that ... «Huffington Post, Feb 12»
