10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUMDRUMNESS»
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humdrumness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Paths to Contemporary French Literature
Their touching, witty, wacky, sarcastic, or scrupulously reporter-like descriptions
of common objects, urban banalities or rural humdrumness provide rare insights
into the human condition, even into our search for spiritual truths. Such authors ...
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Official Report of the ... National Training Conference of ...
Freedom From Humdrumness Then Scouting stands for another freedom —
freedom from humdrumness. If there's any enslavement that eats like a canker
into the spirit of the man, it is the lack of adventure, leading a humdrum existence.
Boy Scouts of America. National Training Conference of Professional Scouters, 1947
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Bollywood's Top 20: Superstars of Indian Cinema
The matinee idol was not only a crowd-puller; his persona activated fantasy,
allowed viewers to forget for a brief spell the humdrumness of their own lives in
entertaining films like Paying Guest (1957), Taxi Driver, C.I.D.,Jab Pyar Kisi Se
Hota ...
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The American Popular Novel After World War II: A Study of 25 ...
See “Easy Writers,” The New Yorker (May 28, 2012), pp. 81-84. While this
amnesia effect may be real, I argue that at a deeper level, the best seller meta-
narrative reinforces our personal conventions, or humdrumness. Bibliography
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What Mama Didn't Tell Ya: Relationship Advice for the Young ...
... a wink, a kiss, a hug, a pinched bum, a cheeky look, all keep things interesting
between partners . . . even in the real world where sometimes the humdrumness
threatens to take over.
While prose was associated in the poet's mind with simplic- ity, clarity, brevity,
precision, ideas/thoughts, humdrumness, concreteness, multiple points of view,
he was also the first to meet the challenge of a more self-aware, post-
Karamzinian ...
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Letters of a Woman Homesteader
When they were older they planned to marry, but neither wanted to settle down to
the humdrumness that they had always known. Both dreamed of the golden West
; so Bishey had gone to blaze the trail, and "Miss Em'ly" was to follow. First one ...
Elinore Pruitt Stewart, 2008
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Philosophy and Politics of Czech Dissidence from Patočka to ...
He reacted to the extreme humdrumness of life in Czechoslovakia under "
normalization" after the 1968 invasion, the gray concentration on work,
production, and reproduction, to the exclusion of not just the free search for truth
and justice, but ...
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Colossus: The secrets of Bletchley Park's code-breaking ...
There was a striking contrast between the town itself, the essence of everyday
humdrumness, and BP with its dramatic work going on 24 hours a day, often
affecting crucial decisions in the conduct of the war, and involving—not the least
...
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From the Geranium Farm: A Second Crop of Daily Emails
... slice of everyday life, pares it of all humdrumness. then splices its rejuvenated
everydayness into holiness. Splices of life, you might call eMos — half humble,
beautiful geranium ... half rose. Every morning thousands of readers open these ...
Barbara Cawthorne Crafton, 2003
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HUMDRUMNESS»
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humdrumness is used in the context of the following news items.
'Like kids, even adults and the elderly need recreational activities …
We also need separate open spaces for elderly for them to relax and get a reprieve from the humdrumness. But, in my study, I am focusing ... «NYOOOZ, Jun 15»
Big News from Grand Rock: Extra, extra, laugh all about it
... quaint (and partly crowd-sourced) feature is 87 minutes of fun time, if a little clichéd in its depiction of village mentalities and humdrumness. «The Globe and Mail, Feb 15»
Why We Keep On Keepin' On
It is the apparent humdrumness of life against which those moments of heightened awareness, of sudden bliss, arise with greater brilliance. «Huffington Post, Nov 14»
'Fashion Police' Should Not Go On Without Joan Rivers, It's as Easy …
... without Rivers — it could certainly remain on its stiletto-wearing feet — but after a few months without her, its humdrumness would get old. «Bustle, Sep 14»
Is Hungary Dan's next best shot at a win?
... like getting beaten by a gaggle of customer Mercedes teams, perhaps — what's left is a sort of humdrumness of picking up decent points race ... «Fox Sports, Jul 14»
An evening of comedy: Of fussy dadis and Hispanic maids
Covering a diverse range of characters, ethnicities, languages and stereotypes, Beo's quips were a welcome change from the humdrumness of ... «The Express Tribune, Apr 14»
Unwitty 'Mitty' misses point of Thurber's fantasies
To escape the humdrumness of his existence, the henpecked, cowed Mitty would daydream, imagining himself to be a skilled surgeon, fighter ... «Chicago Daily Herald, Dec 13»
Sweden's Riots, 'Good Socialism,' and the Importance of Earned …
Though O'Rourke is at first pleased to find “no visible crazy people” in the public squares, the lifeless humdrumness of it all quickly leads to ... «Acton Institute, Jun 13»
How Obscene! How James Joyce Told the Difference Between Art …
I should like to co-opt the underlying humdrumness of the sentiment and proffer the tagline to art's baser brother -- the banality of pornography. «Huffington Post, Jun 13»
We Can Be Heroes: Finding the Australian of the Year [DVD Review]
... We Can Be Heroes is a better middle-class comedy than America has known for years, combining the humdrumness of an '80s sitcom with ... «Cinema Blend, Dec 12»
