10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OFFISHNESS»
Discover the use of
offishness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
offishness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
A Guide to Heidegger's Being and Time
This existential "distantiality" or "stand-offishness" (Abstandigeit) can concretize
itself in many different ways. It is there, for instance, in the care to catch up with
the others, to "do as the Joneses do." Or it may manifest itself in the opposite way,
...
Magda King, John Llewellyn, 2001
2
Colonel Starbottle's Client
Well, – now this is where the Speshal Providence comes in, – only this afternoon
Jim Briggs, hearin' me speak of Horseley's offishness"– "WHOSE offishness?"
asked the lady. "Horseley's offishness, – Horseley's the name of the man I'm
talkin' ...
3
Delphi Complete Works of Bret Harte (Illustrated):
Well, — now this is where the Speshal Providence comes in, —only this
afternoon Jim Briggs, hearin' me speak of Horseley's offishness” — “WHOSE
offishness?” asked thelady. “Horseley's offishness, — Horseley'sthe name ofthe
man I'm ...
She appeared to be stand-offish but, like in him, the stand-offishness was a
defence mechanism which gained time to assess the situation before responding
to a protagonist. Neither of them made snap decisions unless the situation
absolutely ...
While Helga Crane is presented as unusually prone to being irritated by nearly
anything around her, we are informed (by Quicksand's mostly covert omniscient
narrator), that “[Helga] herself was unconscious of that faint hint of offishness
which ...
6
The Notebooks of Robert Frost
(Mesa)) Mind your own business. He shall perish of his obedience as [illegible] it
were (of) a disease. The disease will be called offishness (as opposed to
offishness.) The Herd Made One. (Significant that we spend so much time
keeping each ...
Robert Frost, Robert Faggen, 2006
8. formality, restraint, self-restraint, self-control, undemonstrativeness,
unexpansiveness; guardedness, discretion; aloofness, offishness, stand-
offishness, un- sociability; distance, detachment, remoteness, inaccessibility,
unapproachability; ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
8
Practical Office Supervision
When other workers begin to "strike back" at the offish one, that further excites his
offishness, and antagonism builds up like a snowball rolling down hill. The
grouchy one builds up such an array of antagonism against himself that he finally
has ...
9
The Writings of Bret Harte
"Say buyer and seller, ma'am, not neighbors — at least Scriptoorily — nor friends.
Well, — now this is where the Speshal Providence comes in, — only this
afternoon Jim Briggs, hearin' me speak of Horseley's offishness " — " Whose
offishness ...
To avoid the above problem, I decided to ask for the editors' relative degree of "
well-offishness" or "affluence." My critical variable was the type of automobile
they own. It must be noted here that I am not departing from any known methods
of ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OFFISHNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
offishness is used in the context of the following news items.
'Oklahoma' What A Beautiful Evening With CLOC
Katharine Nunn is Laurey's Aunt Eller, whose down to earth wisdom sees through Curly's swagger and Laurey's stand-offishness. It's no ... «CapeNews.net, Jul 15»
Ajai Shukla: Stop the dithering with Washington
Several US thinkers who believe India would turn to it again in any serious conflict with China find New Delhi's stand-offishness inexplicable. «Business Standard, Jun 15»
The role of the left in the 2015 election debacle
... organisational amateurishness, its hopelessness as a force in the trade unions and its stand-offishness to actual workers' struggles. «Workers' Liberty, May 15»
Oscars 2015: Who's gonna win?
Benedict Cumberbatch's non-stop show-offishness failed to draw me in, ditto Eddie Redmayne's wall-building impersonation of Stephen ... «San Diego Reader, Feb 15»
On Broadway: 'The Real Thing'
... knowing smile or a cool stand-offishness. Gyllenhaal telegraphs her character's unease and real desires with aching subtlety. It's a pity Henry ... «Poughkeepsie Journal, Nov 14»
It's roller disco for all eternity with Stars
David Bowie is one who can successfully effect a stand-offishness and yet convince that he is intimately involved. This may have been the one ... «Herald.ie, Oct 14»
India's 'five sixers' do important business in the Philippines
But there is a discernible stand-offishness among the Sindhis to their poorer and more humble Indian brethren from Punjab. Cebu has around ... «Hindustan Times, Oct 14»
QUENTIN LETTS calls for an end to the scourge of chewing gum
Greed, neediness, a babyish desire to have something between one's lips, a Neanderthal show-offishness as young men bare their teeth and ... «Daily Mail, Oct 14»
Free hugs in Bath city centre
But it didn't take long for them to warm to the idea, and stiff upper lips and any other stand-offishness was quickly abandoned, as people ... «Bath Chronicle, Oct 14»
Modi and the media and the mania: It's complicated
But despite his current stand-off — or stand-offishness — with the Indian media, Modi has had a long history of engaging with them. In fact, the ... «Times of India, Sep 14»
