10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POCOCURANTISM»
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pococurantism in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pococurantism and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The North British Review
Pococurantism of Mr. Thackeray. 67 another degree of respect when he tells us
how he would have boys educated. Mr. Spenlow may be a capital likeness of a
Doctors' Commons lawyer ; and yet this would not be the proper ground for ...
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The North British Review
Pococurantism of Mr. Thaekeray. 67 another degree of respect when he tells us
how he would have boys educated. Mr. Spenlow may be a capital likeness of a
Doctors' Commons lawyer ; and yet this would not be the proper ground for ...
It is enough to make one forswear for ever all decent reflection and honest
compassion, and take refuge in cynical jollity and elegant pococurantism.
Pococurantism. I looked it up. It means caring little, being indifferent, nonchalant. .
. . nothing ...
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Kuno Francke's Edition of the German Classics (1913-15): A ...
... literary history he dismissed Lucinde as "maudlin," barely mentioning it in
connection with Clemens Brentano's equally despised Godwi, which "made a
scandal by its frank preaching of free love, self-indulgence, and social
pococurantism.
Jeffrey L. Sammons, Kuno Francke, 2009
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Short studies, ethical and religious
POCOCURANTISM. In one of the letters to an old pupil published in Arnold's Life
and Correspondence we have a vigorous denunciation of what the writer calls "
Pococurantism." And as the " value of Veneration " is given in the Table of ...
Henry Nutcombe Oxenham, 1885
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The Broadview Anthology of British Literature: The Victorian ...
Dilettantism, Pococurantism, Beau-Brummelism,8 with perhaps an occasional,
half-mad, protesting burst ofByronism, establish themselves; at the end ofa
certain period, if you go back to “the Dead Sea,” there is, say our Moslem friends,
...
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Broadview Anthology of British Literature, The. Concise ...
Dilettantism, Pococurantism, Beau-Brummelism,4 with perhaps an occasional,
half-mad, protesting burst ofByronism, establish themselves; at the end ofa
certain period, if you go back to “the Dead Sea,” there is, say our Moslem friends,
a very ...
Edited by Joseph Black et al.
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Burtons Legal Thesaurus 5th Edition: Over 10,000 Synonyms, ...
pococurantism disinterest (lack of interest) poena expiation, penalty, punishment,
retribution poenalis penal poetic original (creative) poignant bitter (penetrating),
moving (evoking emotion). SEE MAIN ENTRY point case (set of circumstances), ...
... unambitiousness, want or lack of ambition or enterprise, nonag- gressiveness;
listlessness, Dial, limpsiness, lackadaisicalness, insouciance, pococurantism;
shift- lessness, worthlessness, good-for-nothingness; slackness, laxity,
remissness, ...
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
DREAMS. pnigophobia 313. PHOBIAS. pococurante 41. behavior,
pococurantism. pococurantism 28. ATTITUDES; 41. BEHAVIOR. pococurantist 41
. behavior, pococurantism. podagra 157. FEET and LEGS. podagral 157. FEET
and LEGS ...
Laurence Urdang, Anne Ryle, Tanya H. Lee, 1986
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «POCOCURANTISM»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pococurantism is used in the context of the following news items.
T S Eliot: Reflections on vers libre
A lady, renowned in her small circle for the accuracy of her stop-press information of literature, complains to me of a growing pococurantism. «New Statesman, May 13»
Why True Grit Matters in the Face of Adversity
Though, to be fair, the latter prefers to think of it not as "grit" but as "eschewing pococurantism." Grit is not synonymous with hard work. «Fast Company, Feb 11»
