10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COCKEYEDNESS»
Discover the use of
cockeyedness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
cockeyedness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Question of Christian Philosophy Today
... comes about thanks to the being of signifiance [the site of both meaning and its
loss], and since this being has no place other than the place of the Other which I
designate with a capital O, one can see the cockeyedness of what happens.
Francis J. Ambrosio,
1999
2
Delphi Complete Works of John Galsworthy (Illustrated)
The shortness of life and thelength of art are to him increasingly apparent,
andhehas cometo mistrust theinveterate cockeyedness of the literary man. Save
as museum pieces in the unvisited rooms of the Past, how very few bookslive!
And Jean gives back to him proof of her love in the language of infatuation—of
cockeyedness— that he had used to express his love: "Don't you know I've
waited all my life for you and then talked too much, you big mug." Jean doesn't
want to ...
4
Merriam-Webster's Rhyming Dictionary
... purveyance, surveillance reconveyance eyant \ä-ant\ mayn't abeyant,
surveillant eyas \ï-as\ see ias ey'd \äd\ see ade1 eye \ï\ see y1 eyed1 \ëd\ see eed
eyed2 \ïd\ see ide eyedness \ïd-nas\ eyedness, snideness cockeyedness eyeless
\ï-bs\ ...
When De Hooch, Vermeer's close associate, attempts such effects in a head like
that of the lady in The Card Players at Buckingham Palace he is apt to lapse back
into the subtly insensate cockeyedness which is so lovable in the low-life genre ...
Lawrence Gowing, Johannes Vermeer,
1952
6
The Myth of the Eastern Front: The Nazi-Soviet War in ...
... Colonel McCormick, owner of the Chicago Tribune, wrote, no doubt with
clenched teeth, that although Communists remained both cockeyed and
dangerous, “we should draw not upon their dangerousness, but upon their
cockeyedness.
Ronald Smelser, Edward J. Davies (II),
2008
7
Feminine Sexuality: Jacques Lacan and the École Freudienne
... as supported by feminine jouissance? Since all this comes about thanks to the
being ofsignifwnce, and since this being has no place other than the place of the
Other which I designate with a capital O, one can see the cockeyedness of what ...
Jacques Lacan, Juliet Mitchell, Jacqueline Rose,
1985
8
The American Photo-engraver
John P. Kieffer has a nice case of "cockeyedness" but he insists that it was not
brought on by graduated refreshments. Orson Evans of the Mid-Continent Chapel
has been trying his hand at fishing and he came in without a catch, but with a
nice ...
9
Oxford English Dictionary Additions Series
cockeyedness (COCK-EYED a.), cross-eyedness, oneeyedness (ONE-I'IYED a.
26), etc. c1440 Promp. P071). 39 Blerydnesse. 1591 R. PERCIVALL Spanish Dict
., Entordatura,. .squinteidnes, crookedness. 1904 Science 8 Apr. 593/2 It may be
...
J. A. Simpson, Michael Proffitt, E. S. C. Weiner,
1997
10
Bartlett's Roget's Thesaurus
1 3 cockeyedness obliqueness 607.1 cockfight duet 422. 12 cockfighting animal
killing 30.10, Sporting Activities 145 cockily 402.19; arro^an(/y297.18, 400.21,
defiantly 416.9 cockiness 402.3; arrogance 400.4, defiance 4\6. 1 cocking ...
Little Brown & Company,
2003