10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PSEUDERY»
Discover the use of
pseudery in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pseudery and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Language of Journalism: Newspaper culture. Volume one
Here was a fleeting moment when pseudery — and the noble Lord was a proper
toff and an immortal pseud — flashed its hidden qualities of sincerity and
authenticity. Sic transit gloria mundi.11 Of a High Dumb-Down Tolerance
Everything, ...
Two vibrant artistic minds and hearts have come together in this specially formatted book whose two sides interact in a fascinating and continuing conversation.
3
Bricks and Mortals: Ten Great Buildings and the People They Made
This inner contradiction cannot be resolved, but architecture and art can be used
to articulate such contradictions spatially.11 Bloated with money-mysticism, this
pseudery reveals that even after dispensing with columns and pediments ...
4
The World's Greatest Idea
Youcould say it was pretentious, and anybody trying to imitate it today isindanger
of being skewered for pseudery. But that was only becauseits intentions were so
lofty. Artistically, intellectually, morally,spiritually, itwas intended togive us ...
5
The State of the Language
Pseud's Corner is a column made up of sentences and paragraphs lifted in the
main from the higher or lower reaches of art criticism. It is art criticism which leads
, for the visual arts seem to call for the highest level of pseudery. Yet it is the
artists ...
Leonard Michaels, Christopher Ricks, 1980
Lots of difficult high-falutin' words, oozing buckets of pseudery, pompous chin-
wagging galore. A sentence begins and it has no object in mind, no possible end
in sight. It just goes on twisting and turning, slithering and snaking on, the head ...
7
Media Warfare: The Americanization of Language
... lts Splendors and Miseries— including Cliches and Trivia, Sensationalism and
Prurience, Wit and Witlessness, Fiction and Faction, Pseudery and Jabberwocky,
Scoops and Hoaxes, Racism and Sexism, Profanity anol Obscenity, Virtue and ...
8
Lord Gnome's Literary Companion
The reading public wanted no truck with such a load of old pseudery. Osborne
calls himself a poet but finds 'something sordid in adopting poetry as a profession
'. Odd, considering that his pretension to the slightest literary repute hangs on the
...
9
On Music: Essays and Diversions 1963-2003
Here the different levels genuinely interact: this is no hotchpotch; a poetic
meaning without pseudery or dead wood is realised in music of vibrant colour
and lyricism. Act III, which returns to the main story, is rocked by dramatic
absurdities, but ...
10
Doing Feminist Research
Attacks on sociologists' work for 'pseudery ' or the alleged use of jargon, or for
spending time and money to establish what 'everybody ' already knew, are
examples of the kinds of difficulty we face. These must be overcome if we are to
motivate ...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PSEUDERY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
pseudery is used in the context of the following news items.
Poliuto, Glyndebourne Festival Opera
But in her attempts to add depth, Clément does occasionally risk pseudery. Hansen's projections, turning the pillars by turns into gardens, open windows, even a ... «The Arts Desk, May 15»
'Aren't They The Lucky Ones?'
There is only one word for this: pseudery. Dressing up in traditional, ethnic minority clothes against the backdrop of the Potala Palace, temples and prayer ... «Radio Free Asia, May 15»
Edinburgh Festival 2014: Liam Williams: Capitalism, Laughing …
It begins with Williams expertly mining his years of being bullied at school and his own pessimistic, left-wing pseudery, admitting that he always wants things to ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 14»
Edinburgh comedy 2014: what to see
“Capitalism” begins with Williams expertly mining his years of being bullied at school and his own pessimistic, left-wing pseudery, before getting on to the hour's ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 14»
Quartett, Royal Opera House's Linbury Theatre, review: 'A shameful …
The surtitles – for those few in the audience able to see them – were wall-to-wall pseudery, and the characterisation was crude beyond belief, with the singers ... «The Independent, Jun 14»
A journey around our piers: two men's very British obsession
"I got accused of 'the worst type of pseudery' by someone on Facebook recently, because I'd said something about the pier as a phallic symbol and our desire to ... «The Guardian, Mar 14»
Correspondences by Anne Michaels – review
And there are moments here where she teeters on the brink of pseudery such as the line in which she writes about "all invisible freedoms/contained in a pair of ... «The Guardian, Dec 13»
Grayson Perry may dress as a woman – but he's got the balls to take …
... stiletto rather than the bludgeon, but in Playing to the Gallery he does a thorough job of mocking the intellectual pretentiousness and pseudery of the art world. «Telegraph.co.uk, Oct 13»
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it ... Win Phone 8? No, it's APPLE'S iOS 7
Consider this piece of pseudery from the developer documentation: “Visual layers and realistic motion impart vitality and heighten users' delight and ... «Register, Sep 13»
The Pelosi Catholic
In Italian, the adjective “peloso”, of which “pelosi” is the plural, means “hairy”, but it has also the connotations of dishonesty and self-serving pseudery conveyed ... «Patheos, Jul 13»
