10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PORTENTOUSNESS»
Discover the use of
portentousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
portentousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Theory, Analysis and Meaning in Music
predicate 'portentousness' has crystallised into an interpretation of the events not
only of bar 53, but of its anacrusis through to at least bar 56, that distinguishes the
many facets of the events that contribute to the span's structure of dramatic ...
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The History of the Armenian Genocide: Ethnic Conflict from ...
The. Portentousness. of. the. Abdul. Hamit. Era. Massacres. Ihe significance of
any given historical period is best measured by its degree of relevance to the
unfolding of subsequent events. From the perspective of nationality conflicts
besetting ...
The. Lively. Arts. /Alan. Rich. PORTENTS. OF. NON-EVENTS. ". . .There. was. a.
time. in. American. arts. when. portentousness. passed. for. depth. I. had. hoped.
we. had. outgrown. this,. but. no . . ." Theater /John Simon OP PROM VARIOUS ...
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In Gratitude for All the Gifts: Seamus Heaney and Eastern Europe
His derogation of 'portentousness' reminds us that Heaney's early 'Personal
Helicon' dramatizes an opposite sort of portentousness: 'I rhyme to see myself, /
To set the darkness echoing,' he writes, and such lines, in which ominously
echoing ...
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Where God and Science Meet: The psychology of religious ...
Similarly, Daniel Freedman often focused on the fact that hallucinogens produce
a feeling of portentousness. That is, psychedelics can produce a powerful and
profound sense that something ominous or momentous is about to occur or is ...
Arguably the greatest book from America's most heroically ambitious writer, THE EXECUTIONER'S SONG follows the short, blighted life of Gary Gilmore who became famous after he robbed two men in 1976 and killed them in cold blood.
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How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
Perhaps the banality has to speak for itself: the standard types of remark on love
ironically left hanging before the scenes of suicide and despair. The lines may
read like a parody of a chorus's portentousness, but the performance should not
be ...
There was a cool hint of silver beneath all that brilliant gold. The sun still shone, it
was still hotter than Hades, but there was a kind of stillness in the air, an edge of
portentousness. Portentousness, indeed, he thought, glancing up. Black clouds ...
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Altering Consciousness: Multidisciplinary Perspectives [2 ...
We propose that a feeling of portentousness is a product of frontal cortical activity.
It is only in humans where reflection and introspection can occur, and conscious
decisions made to carry out specific behaviors. The rationale for making ...
Etzel Cardeña, Michael J. Winkelman, 2011
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Theonomy and Autonomy: Studies in Paul Tillich's Engagement ...
The irony of technology is that its successful achievements bring with them a new
portentousness, "a horror of the rigid world that serves us and that cannot talk as
a living being to a living being."34 Technical domination in the end raises a ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PORTENTOUSNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
portentousness is used in the context of the following news items.
Life of Saul Bellow review: Striking a balance between the work and …
Leader invests the scene with both poetry and portentousness, identifying it as a literal watershed: the moment when Bellow embraced a looser ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
Nicole Kidman strains to save flat Strangerland
A molasses-paced mood piece smothered in its own portentousness, Strangerland is made even more frustrating by the obvious commitment of ... «Straight.com, Jul 15»
Act Four Live: Pop culture with Alyssa Rosenberg (July 20)
It's all just a stew of sexual dysfunction and portentousness. How are you feeling about it? — Jul 20, 2015 1:05 EDT. Q: Blech: Ant-Man. «Washington Post, Jul 15»
'Confession of the Lioness' by Mia Couto
David Brookshaw has capably translated Couto in the past, and it's unclear whether the portentousness arises from Couto's writing or from its ... «Boston Globe, Jul 15»
Ant-Man, film review: Paul Rudd's superhero is so insubstantial he …
After the portentousness of recent Avengers outings, it is refreshing to encounter an action-adventure with a Lilliputian lightness of touch. «The Independent, Jul 15»
The Crate: Pink Floyd, The Wall (1979)
No matter how far I run I can never escape the twin pillars of portentousness – Pink Floyd and U2. So solemn, so earnest, so desperately ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
Perspectives: on haircuts and humility
With a dry portentousness that Lady Grantham herself would have been proud of, I enunciated, “Have a good day Sir! I hope today is one of the ... «Greenwich Time, Jul 15»
Neil Diamond, Odyssey Arena Belfast, review: 'Vestiges of greatness …
His appeal was always grounded in the dash of his songwriting which, without ever tipping towards melodrama or portentousness, runs the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Jun 15»
'True Detective' season 2 is the embarrassing television show we …
The only time this portentousness lands is in a brief sequence that appears to take place in an anteroom of Hades, where a Conway Twitty ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
From the archive, 19 June 1962: Michael Morpurgo complains about …
... thing at all; and the portentousness is well timed and highly polished. All the same, it is one thing to deliver an exchange on the screen which ... «The Guardian, Jun 15»
