10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «OVERINGENIOUS»
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overingenious in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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Caxtoniana a Series of Essays, Life, Litterature and Manners ...
Nor do I attach any importance to the cavil of some overingenious critics, who
have denied that genius in reality creates,- inasmuch as the forms it presents are
only new combinations of ideas already existent. New combinations are, to. all ...
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Caxtoniana: a Series of Essays on Life, Literature, and Manners
Nor do I attach any importance to the evil of some overingenious critics, who
have denied that genius in reality creates, inasmuch as the forms it presents are
only new combinations of ideas already existent. New combinations are, to all
plain ...
Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton,
1864
This may, I am afraid, sound more than a bit overingenious. But in a film as
carefully structured as Taxi Driver, every shot is made to count, to be meaningful
immediately or to prepare for meaning later in the work. This meaning need not A
...
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Love's Labour's Lost: Critical Essays
... that I have simple: simple, a foolish extravagant spitit, full of forms, figures,
objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions."101 In the second place,
Holofernes indulges a passion for overingenious etymologies. He exclaims
pompously ...
Felicia Hardison Londré,
2001
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Actors in the Audience: Theatricality and Doublespeak from ...
... detected in poetry from Nero's reign may be the product of overingenious
interpretation on the part of present readers, "it is certain that the same kind of
ingenuity was exercised by contemporaries to pick up meaning in oblique
references.
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Edward Said at the Limits
Without being overingenious it seems possible to say that this brave and sub- tle
essay is a declaration of resistance, which, in the end, leaves us with the seri-
ous question of whether there is indeed a way out of the impasse insofar as ...
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Sanctity and Motherhood: Essays on Holy Mothers in the ...
... the temptation to be overingenious is always present. However, a shift towards
a male-oriented religious ideology, probably helped or even caused by the
strengthening of Germanic kingship, seems plausible; also that it was achieved at
the ...
Anneke Mulder-Bakker,
2013
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Knotted Tongues: Stuttering in History and the Quest for a Cure
... if I had incorporated her impediment into myself as a way of holding on to some
part of her once she was gone. This may seem overingenious, but it made the
more sense to me because, as it happens, she had also taught me how to spell.
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A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film
Hitchcock's elaborate maneuvers to hide the film's few cuts (so that the interior
narrative will seem to consist of but one continuous shot) draw as much attention
to the act of editing as Brandon draws to David's corpse, with his overingenious ...
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A Short History of Greek Literature
... so freely reflected in his tragedies. Hence the sometimes overingenious
attempts of scholars (E. Delebecque and R. Goossens, among others) to ferret
out endless topical allusions in his work. The only real constant is his open-
mindedness.
Jacqueline de Romilly,
1985
3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «OVERINGENIOUS»
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A Masterpiece Made Manifest
Needless to say, that's not what Williams had in mind, and on paper it may sound like an overingenious directorial conceit, but in performance it ... «Wall Street Journal, Mar 10»
A Nation of Commentators
It is impossible to say of Rashi, as we might of a secular critic writing about a poem or novel, that he is overingenious, interpreting things that ... «Tablet Magazine, Jul 09»
Doing Battle With the Bard
Nor does Mr. Smith seem at ease when, in his introduction, he pelts the reader with a series of overingenious claims for Milton's relevance. «New York Sun, May 08»