10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «NEOPHILIAC»
Discover the use of
neophiliac in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
neophiliac and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A BRIEF TALE OF OBESITY
This person isan example of what psychologists have named a “neophiliac”,
someone who seeks new flavors, aromas, colors, and textures atalltimes. The
author of thishumble book iscompletely the opposite: regarding gastronomy,I
rather eat ...
2
Can a Bishop Be Wrong?: Ten Scholars Challenge John Shelby Spong
118) A neophiliac is someone who so loves the new that he cannot appreciate
the old. Jack is such a neophiliac that in one of his earliest books, Honest Prayer,
he claims that there was no such thing as honest prayer until modern times.
3
Consuming Geographies: We are where We Eat
Ulf Hannerz's (1990, 1996) work on the figure of the cosmopolitan is, of course,
important here, with his or her 'willingness to engage with the Other' (Hannerz
1990: 239) feeding, among other things, reflexive neophiliac consumerism: Some
...
4
Connected Marketing: The Viral, Buzz and Word of Mouth ...
describes people fascinated by the latest and greatest: neophiliac. He writes: 'I
cannot let “neophiliac” go by: It is a useful word coined in 1942 for “one who
believes that every change is an improvement”.'9 In 1997, The New Yorker
published ...
Justin Kirby, Paul Marsden, 2006
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Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, McBrewster John, 2011
6
The way to the stars: sermons for the space age
3). Are. You. a. Neophiliac? There are some snatches of the Old Testament and
New which earn instant recognition. You don't have to pause to identify them.
Here is one. You would have known where it came from, even if we hadn't read
the ...
7
Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since 1900
This first ever history of technology casts aside the usual stories of inventions and focuses instead on what people actually use.
Thus speaks Christopher Booker, a repentant Neophiliac himself, onetime
scriptwriter for That Was the Week ley Amis' Lucky Jim, revues like Beyond the
Fringe seemed to be acts of ruddy good health against a moribund Establishment
.
Briton Hadden, Henry Robinson Luce, 1970
9
Building Vocabulary From Word Roots Student Book Lv 8 (4c): ...
See if others can determine what your sketches : represent. Try to figure out theirs
. I I I a novel idea a renovator a novice at something someone with an innovative
idea I' a neophiliac [hintz phil means “love of”] someone reading a novella l ,l l l ...
Timothy V. Rasinski, Beach City Press, 2007
10
On Roads: A Hidden History
... grace and beauty ... an heroically isolated fragment of the modern city London
might once have become'.41 And no one ever thought of building a neo-Gothic
flyover or a mock-Georgian underpass. But Ballard was no kneejerk neophiliac.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «NEOPHILIAC»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
neophiliac is used in the context of the following news items.
Want to be slimmer and smarter? Turn into a Foodie
Neophile or Neophiliac, a term popularised by cult writer Robert Anton Wilson, is a personality type characterized by a strong affinity for novelty ... «Empire State Tribune, Jul 15»
It was Jan Morris who transformed the world for transgender people
Jenner's audience is unreflective and neophiliac. For them, her athletic past belongs in pre-history. Her saleability derives from whatever she ... «Irish Examiner, Jun 15»
Royal Academy's Summer Exhibition reviewed: a jumble sale with …
Nonetheless — call me a neophiliac, if you like — I tend to enjoy it most when some 21st-century order has been brought to the primordial ... «Spectator.co.uk, Jun 15»
Why I'm still wearing my Apple watch
But the Apple Watch will probably satisfy that neophiliac itch for a long time. Watches are items that are endlessly admired by their owners. «Starr 103.5 FM, May 15»
Selfies: The wrong focus
There is something dispiriting about the rise of the “selfie”. Not the thing itself: it is merely a self-portrait. Our neophiliac culture acts as though it ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Dec 14»
Aston Martin steers the new V12 Vantage S Roadster into supercar …
... the first time and then refuse to kowtow to society's raving neophiliac tendencies. The Aston Martin Vantage is the product of such an attitude. «wallpaper.com, Nov 14»
Kate Bush: Romantically stubborn, potent lyrics and unequivocally …
... acknowledged masterpiece, Hounds Of Love, a prog-pop masque of an album built with the cold instrumentation of a neophiliac age: chiefly, ... «Belfast Telegraph, Aug 14»
Why I Go To Disrupt
I am, to be clear, a neophiliac and techno-utopian, but I know that humans like to meet other humans with similar interests and a Disrupt is a ... «TechCrunch, May 14»
Book Review: 'Authorisms' by Paul Dickson
He writes of Christopher Booker coining "neophiliac" for his 1969 volume about recent changes in English life, but sociologists had been using ... «Wall Street Journal, Apr 14»
Libraries: a plea from a silence seeker
It's not their fault either that people have less shame about having domestic arguments in public, or that there's a certain neophiliac tendency in ... «Spiked, Nov 13»
