10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SELF-PITYINGLY»
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self-pityingly in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
self-pityingly and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Rituals of
Self-revelation: Shishōsetsu as Literary Genre ...
Painful experiences are also, on the one hand, self-pityingly bemoaned as
unavoidable fate while, on the other, they are the cause of sentimental mujo
feelings, that is, they lose their concreteness and are aesthetically exaggerated.
That his ...
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit,
1996
2
Radical Feminism and Women's Writing: Only So Far and No Further
She reminds him metaphorically of the familial constraints of his life and self-
pityingly of the comparative superfluity of her own role in his life. ' — No, Diwakar,
I don't want to grab anything. You flow below the bridge, hugging the sides —
and I ...
Chandra Nisha Singh,
2007
3
Designing and Managing Your Career
She frequently and self-pityingly inveighed against her boss, her subordinates,
her peers, and the competition. She was capable, knowledgeable, a hard worker,
critical. And never once, when she sang the old refrain, "Why does this always ...
4
The Red and the White: The Cinema of People's Poland
... but as a choice of freedom the Pole himself masochistically refuses, or self-
pityingly knows is unavailable to him; but an indictment also, for Nina dies, partly
because of that self-absorption, which is a failure truly to recognise the neighbour
.
5
A Third Concept of Liberty: Judgment and Freedom in Kant and ...
... self-interest but our ability to be aware of sharing interests: to know how to
persuade another.28 Unlike the puppy or the beggar, the butcher's customer can
speak to someone else's needs rather than bleating self-pityingly about her own.
Samuel Fleischacker,
1999
... considers to be his pure, central self) is like God, if not actually God himself;
and an exterior, historical world, in which he is like a beggar on the margins of
existence, his self-pityingly cherished downtrodden self, a mere historical
accident.
Ilinca Zarifopol-Johnston, Kenneth R. Johnston,
2009
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Women and Autonomy in Kate Chopin's Short Fiction
As a bored Adrienne lounges amidst her "picturesque disorder" and an admiring
young woman friend seeks to make Adrienne's caged parrot talk, the servant
Sophie stands in the center of the room and melodramatically and self-pityingly ...
8
Practicing Presence: The Spirituality of Caring in Everyday Life
4 Typical of the hypochondriacal "invalid," however, the underground man
protests that he can do nothing to ameliorate his sorry state. He feels he's
reached the point of no return, lost the possibility of redemption, and he self-
pityingly resents ...
9
Beyond Ethnicity : Consent and Descent in American Culture: ...
"I should readily change places," David says self-pityingly at the end of the novel,
with the Russian Jew who holds the foremost place among American song-
writers and whose soulful compositions are sung in almost every English-
speaking ...
Werner Sollors Professor of American Literature and Afro-American Studies Harvard University,
1986
... but then Natty's junky allure is totally lost on him. He looks upon her — quite
rightly — as another of the diseased. And she self—pityingly leaks, dabs black
cuff to bruised eye, shuffles off to one side, into the shadows of a temporary
oblivion.
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SELF-PITYINGLY»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
self-pityingly is used in the context of the following news items.
Some of us are simply born delicious – mosquitoes can taste it
I wail self-pityingly before spraying myself from top to toe in industrial-strength DEET, slamming shut all the doors and windows, jumping into bed and pulling the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
Hannah Gadsby: Donkey
Yet it still requires a skilled comedian Yet it still requires a skilled comedian to set the right path, laughing un-self-pityingly at their own peculiarities to allow the ... «Chortle, Apr 15»
Outline by Rachel Cusk: Review
This inability is apparent in Faye's dealings with the elderly Greek businessman who self-pityingly shares his riches-to-rags life story with her on the flight from ... «Toronto Star, Jan 15»
Mika Mifune gets ready for some serious 'me' time
Women are liberated by the change in circumstances, whereas men self-pityingly see themselves as being diminished by it. Whose side of the story would you ... «The Japan Times, Jan 15»
Spectator competition: 'Jabberwocky' for the digital age (plus …
William concluded, self-pityingly.' Commendations to Paul Wheeler for his portrait of Paddington Bear falling foul of immigration and to Josh Ekroy. The bonus ... «Spectator.co.uk, Nov 14»
“Birdman” Is One Strange Creature
Following a trio of lowbrow superhero movies (hence the Birdman title), he has self-pityingly wallowed in obscurity for years. In a desperate grab for praise, ... «Patheos, Nov 14»
FILM: Begin Again; Mr Morgan's Last Love; The Giver
One night self-pityingly drunk after another disastrous day, he hears Greta (Keira Knightley) perform one of her own songs to an inattentive audience. «BDlive, Sep 14»
Reviews: Future, Yuck, Fear of Men, TEEN
... stone-cold tough one minute and self-pityingly harrowing the next. Unfortunately, Honest's downsides come in the form of album-wide issues rather than minor ... «Pretty Much Amazing, Apr 14»
David Beckham favourite for Country Life magazine's 'Gentleman of …
He recalls self-pityingly in an interview: 'My very identity as a soldier came to an abrupt end. I'd been soldiering as long as I'd been shaving. 'Suddenly I'd been ... «Daily Mail, Apr 14»
L'Ormindo by Francesco Cavalli review – 'An exquisite evening'
The servants trade amorous indiscretions with the audience, while their masters succumb self-pityingly to the vagaries of desire. The candles blaze, meanwhile, ... «The Guardian, Mar 14»