10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PARROTRY»
Discover the use of
parrotry in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
parrotry and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Songs and Politics in Eastern Africa
move to praise whatever the Party said or did without analysis of the statements
issued or the leadership itself. As a result “a culture of parrotry” emerged.146
Shivji defines the culture of parrotry as “the agility to chorus into the dominant
song, ...
Kimani Njogu, Hervé Maupeu, 2007
2
A new universal etymological technological, and pronouncing ...
PARROTRY— PARSONSIA. PART— PARTAKER. PARROTRY, par'rut-re, s. The
habits of parrots ; imitation of parrots. PaBRT, par 're, r. a. (parer, Fr.) In Fencing,
to ward off or torn aside a thrust from im opponent ; to tura abide ; to prevent a ...
John Craig (F.G.S.), 1849
3
Universalist Quarterly and General Review
Article XXIV. forgiveness of Sin : Its Philosophy, Incidents and Application. It has
been said with sententious brevity, and repeated in various accents of parrotry,
that " the world moves " ! Not the great globe alone, with its ceaseless revolutions,
...
4
Twentieth-century Drama Dialogue as Ordinary Talk: Speaking ...
The dialogue is given as an example of how Len gets caught in Mark's 'web'. For
Malkin, the key piece of evidence here is the occurrence of repetition: 'Len ...
quickly finds himself repeating Mark's words in almost hypnotic parrotry' (1992:71
).
5
Henry James Goes to Paris
Flaubert's deadpan presentation of its instructions — sometimes citing its very
words— doesn't really constitute a parody of the didactic instruction so much as a
parrotry. After breaking off the composition of Bouvard et Pecuchet in 1875, ...
6
Thinking Through Systems Thinking
A high degree of epistemological parrotry characterizes this mode, with
consciousness' intending–intuiting being ultimately reduced to one intuition
intending any number of phenomena. Now, there is nothing out of the ordinary in
such ...
Surrounded by a cadre of sycophants — academics and ministers of the church
protected by an armed guard — he proclaims a doctrine of "Parrotry." His
simplistic and collusive admonishments to the people are published in the
country's only ...
8
African Literatures in the Eighties
The class of exploiters is represented by high ranking government officials such
as the Minister of Parrotry and wealthy farmers like Williams and John Boy, while
the exploited are variously represented by the street urchins, the factory workers
...
Dieter Riemenschneider, Frank Schulze-Engler, 1993
ALL of fashionable Long Island has taken up J^k parrotry. Other Summer
pastimes have bowed -*□ before this king of recreations which is in reality a
modified form of an ancient sport. Along both shores, and on all save the posted
estates, ...
10
The Novel and the Politics of Nation Building in East Africa
Parrotry is the term Ngugi coins to describe this unquestioning allegiance to the
ideology of the party however pervert it may seem. The party functionaries are
consequently equated with parrots in the way they sing the praises of the party.
Tirop Peter Simatei, 2001
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PARROTRY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
parrotry is used in the context of the following news items.
Not yet time to plan a return trip to Zim
We have become the breeding house for specialists in political hypocrisy, parrotry, worthless flattery, charlatanism and praise-singing. Those of ... «Mail & Guardian Online, Apr 13»
Tomorrow Night: Lez Zeppelin @ the State Theatre
The all-female five-piece—after Bonnaroo, no longer a parlor trick but still an oddity—sacrifices little in its sonic parrotry: enlisting Eddie Kramer ... «Washington City Paper, Oct 09»
