10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «MERETRICIOUSNESS»
Discover the use of
meretriciousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
meretriciousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
It also heralds the arrival of one of the most exciting and acclaimed voices in contemporary fiction, who with this debut novel illustrates that in modern times innocence and basic humanity may not be enough.
It would, nevertheless, be difficult to find in any of his too frequent speeches the
germs of even a consistent scheme of political hatred ; for in spite of their " catchy
" eloquence, the simplest analyst cannot fail to discover their meretriciousness, ...
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A Genealogy of Queer Theory
25 But the "meretriciousness, restrictions, and oppressions of the present" rested
precisely on the incitement to confess the truth of sex, which will make us
inhabitants of modern consumer culture happy, beautiful, rich, and sexually
fulfilled.
William Benjamin Turner, 2000
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Film at the Intersection of High and Mass Culture
Rather, Madonna's right hand is truly ignorant of what the left hand is doing: such
haunting songs as 'Live to Tell' and 'Like a Prayer' alternate with the
meretriciousness of 'La Isla Bonita' or 'Express Yourself. The video no longer
adds ...
... frou-frou, Inf. foofaraw, SI. jazz; af- Jctation, ostentation, meretriciousness,
flamboyance, lowiness, SI. flash. fge, n. 1. border, trimming; frill, ruff, ruffle, punce,
furbelow; filigree, decoration, ornament, perimeter, periphery, edge, rim, verge,
skirt.
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
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Gringolándia: A Guide for Puzzled Mexicans
... The 91 1 Huevos revueltos 16 Humanlandia 86 Hyenas eating hartebeests 13
Hypurtension 169 Import 40 import expediters 41 Incest 121 Indians 81 "
Indiscriminate Meretriciousness"— see Meretriciousness, Indiscriminate
Information 4 1 ...
Jonathan A. Gallant, Lorenzo W. Milam, 1997
And the meretriciousness of his former employer's response! '"It was not I that
brought you here, Bartleby,' said I, keenly pained at his implied suspicion. 'And to
you, this should not be so vile a place. Nothing reproachful attaches to you by ...
Lee K. Abbott, Nathan Leslie, 2009
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine
And it may be that this blinding brilliancy of sunlight betrayed Mr Fildes into
meretriciousness, when he emptied his colour-box on " Venetians " washing
clothes by a canal I Certainly he did not take counsel of Titian as he heaped on
his canvas ...
... prefigures the themes that Balzac will develop throughout the novel:
heartlessness, self-interest, meretriciousness, greed, revenge, bloodthirsty
sexual competition. The unnerving conversation between Crevel and the
Baroness will resonate ...
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The Catholic Reformation
It was the alleged meretriciousness of their sales-pitch approach that induced
Erasmus to accuse the friars, 'excessively hungry for notoriety', of allowing their
preaching to be conditioned by an 'extraordinary lust for money'. The voice of ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «MERETRICIOUSNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
meretriciousness is used in the context of the following news items.
Should We Legalise Sex Work?
The whole capitalist system is built on meretriciousness. "You sell your body or you sell your mind, and the Cartesian mind or body thing is a ... «AllAfrica.com, Jul 15»
Five Questions About the Clintons and a Uranium Company
The optimistic view, if you support Hillary Clinton or are simply depressed by meretriciousness, is that the Times reporters combed the ... «The New Yorker, Apr 15»
A 1992 election-day lunch with the young David Cameron
Was it the soapbox versus the Sheffield rally: dogged decency versus glitz and meretriciousness? When Neil Kinnock came prancing and ... «Spectator.co.uk, Apr 15»
Politicizing Scholarship to Question Israel's Existence
... nation by blending in millions of Jew-hating new citizens is so perverse and unworkable as to expose its meretriciousness from the start. «Arutz Sheva, Mar 15»
Deconstructing Israel: Academics Meet to Question Israel's Right to …
... nation by blending in millions of Jew-hating new citizens is so perverse and unworkable as to expose its meretriciousness from the start. «FrontPage Magazine, Mar 15»
Rubens, Rubens, everywhere
... putto piled on putto, smack of meretriciousness – part of a centuries-long ambivalence towards the sensory and theatrical nature of European ... «The Guardian, Jan 15»
What should we do with private schools?
Although mindful of a recent firecracker of an essay by David Lipsey on “The Meretriciousness of Meritocracy” – describing equality of ... «The Guardian, Dec 14»
Jeff Simon: HBO's 'Olive Kitteridge' is a major TV triumph
She's flesh and blood – enervating, tactless to the point of pitiless, and on personal watch against the meretriciousness of everyone she knows. «Buffalo News, Nov 14»
Mad Men Fans Are Unappeasable Destroyers of Joy
... point) became Ibsenesque characters with deep emotional cores; yet — in a last gesture of the kind of meretriciousness Reagan-era viewers ... «National Review Online, Apr 14»
Does Peter Pan really need a 'backstory'?
... whose prequels to the first Star Wars trilogy were a three-part origin story that revealed with plodding meretriciousness how angelic moppet ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Feb 14»
