10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PLODDINGNESS»
Discover the use of
ploddingness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
ploddingness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Approaching Authority: Transpersonal Gestures in the Poetry ...
The projected reader is being reoriented to accept immersion in the Logos —
taking a kind of pleasure in achieving ploddingness — as the only available
redemption from the pointlessness of perceived isolation: There is no end to it,
the ...
2
Interrobang?! Anthology on Music and Family: Writings and ...
One line, one border, one word, we are standing on it practicing and the
conversation turns toward the ugliness of English, the utilitarian ploddingness of
it, the mismatched and clunky phonemes that never want to flow. In Spanish it
seems ...
3
Naming the Light: A Week of Years
Partly my liking is for the satisfying ploddingness of it — turning over one deep
shovelful of earth after another to put the good stuff on the bottom and bring the
sandy-rocky part up on top where mulch will take care of it, progressing by the
most ...
4
Henry Sidgwick - Eye of the Universe: An Intellectual Biography
4 And they even occasionally remarked with pride that it was the stereotypical
English mind and method, with its fact-gathering ploddingness, that might at last
crack the secret of the universe - "where the German had heen satisfied with
Spirits ...
5
Alfred Kazin's Journals
... is [illegible] tenderly and wisely considered, of her wonderful directness,
naturalness, lovingnesssomething of the quality I observed the other day in Jim
Farrell despite all his heaviness and ploddingness. I mean the way the writer's
constant ...
Alfred Kazin, Richard M. Cook, 2011
6
Locke's Essay and the Rhetoric of Science
The crucial processes of establishing clear and distinct ideas and the
connections between them demand time and effort, a ploddingness scorned by
metaphor's bold inferences and leaps of logic. Locke's condemnation of the
abuses of ...
7
Gravity's Revolt: Part One
... another fit of impatience at her husband's point-by-point ploddingness, in
another rage to reach her conclusion, “that in a class to which we'd sent our
daughter so that she'd gain a knowledge of certain Christian values, you
discussed with ...
8
The Mutiny of the Elsinore:
Iam quite unaffected. Itwas intheday's work,andmy kind havealways been
dayworkers, doingtheday's work, whateverit might be, in high adventure or dull
ploddingness, and always doing it. Never wouldIaskto set back the dialoftime or
event.
9
Decorum of the Minuet, Delirium of the Waltz: A Study of ...
... levels are active, including a two-bar hypermeter, it is the primacy of the quarter
-note level that distinguishes the music of the minuet rhythmically from that of the
trio and contributes to a sense of metrical weight and stately ploddingness.
10
The Breakdown of Hierarchy
... electronic communications media, on the one hand, and the slowness and
ploddingness of the pyramid organizational hierarchy fostered by a paper-based
structure. The paper-based communications structure of the American
corporation, ...
Eugene Marlow, Patricia O' Connor Wilson, Helen Marlow, 2012
