10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SKINNINESS»
Discover the use of
skinniness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
skinniness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Metamorphoses of Fat: A History of Obesity
One may note, for example, the remark of Jean Liebault in 1572, “Obesity is more
fitting to beauty than skinniness.”54 The danger of skinniness is that it removes
what a “normal” amount of fat is supposed to highlight, namely, volume and a ...
2
Handbook of Fiber Science and Technology Volume 2: Chemical ...
Figure 6.30 compares the skinniness and sharpness of prints from the radiation -
curable paste that gives the best combination of print sharpness and skinniness (
formulation A) with those of the conventional all aqueous system at different ...
3
The Corpus Delicti: A Manual of Argentine Fictions
“Through my studio passed all the skinniness, all the squalidness, all the dried
out flesh of the tenements, the alleys, the hospitals and the asylums” (; italics
added). Finally he chooses for his transmutation operation a scrawny old ...
4
Why Your Dog Wants to Bite You (A Study in Male Shortcomings)
Charles A. Hatfield. Here again, there seems to be a trend in society to convince
the general population that a physical shortcoming (in this case, being too skinny
) equates with beauty. We've all heard the phrase, “you can't be too skinny or too
...
5
Girlfriends and Postfeminist Sisterhood
Despite its deification of skinniness, Skinny Bitch assures its readers in a
postscript that: 'We have a confession to make. We really couldn't care less about
being skinny [... ] our real hope is for you to become healthy' (Barnouin and
Freedman, ...
By "stretching an arm through the bars so that one might feel how thin it was," (
244) the Hunger Artist exhibits, not so much the non-action of his fasting, as his
striking skinniness. Of course, this proves a self-defeating performance:
eventually, ...
7
Chin Chen Wang Le-t'ing
This is according to the saying in the Ling Shu: Ni Shun Fei Shou Plan (Spiritual
Axis: "Chapter on Counterflow & Favorable Flow, Fatness & Skinniness"): If the
years and substance [i.e., body] are strong and large, the qi and blood are full
and ...
Hui-chan Yu, Fu-ru Han, 1997
You're pretty.” “Of course. You say that to all the girls in Amiens.” “Well, some are
nice here, but none have that—that—skinniness you got.” “Skinniness? You say I'
m skinny?” “No, I mean—not really skinny. What I mean—you've got a nice lean ...
9
Delphi Works of Arthur Machen (Illustrated)
The with teatray. cathad come in the Hewas a black cat,not very large, with a
decent roundness of feature, and yet witha suggestionof sinewy skinniness
abouthim— the Skinniness of the wastrel, not ofthepoor starveling. Hisbright
green eyes ...
10
Crash Gordon and the Mysteries of Kingsburg
He finds his own skinniness distressing. He often goes about with a jittery,
haunted look on his face. His blonde hair has grown long and unruly, down past
his shoulders. Errant strands of it are always falling into his face (he's stopped
using ...
8 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SKINNINESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
skinniness is used in the context of the following news items.
'Mean' weight-loss app nags you into skinniness
Carrot is a novel take on calorie counting. — AFP picNEW YORK, Jan 15 — The team that brought you the chance to get fit by punching Justin Bieber in his ... «Malay Mail Online, Jan 15»
Topshop at centre of row over body image as 'shocking' skinny …
Topshop is at the centre of a row over body image after a photograph which compared the "shocking" skinniness of a mannequin to a "normal girl" in one of their ... «The Independent, Oct 14»
When We Stopped Obsessing Over Teenage Girls' Skinniness, They …
By skinny, Salazar means the old, extreme model that urged up-and-coming female runners to be as thin as possible. That viewpoint, at one time the cause of a ... «New York Magazine, Jun 14»
Skinniness no survival advantage, study finds: Underweight at …
Toronto researchers who analyzed 51 studies on the links between body mass index and death from any cause found an underweight BMI is associated with the ... «Canada.com, Mar 14»
The YSL catwalk: it's not just women's fashion that has a problem …
The skinniness of his thighs is also an extremely unrealistic shape for the vast majority of men to aspire to. Here are a couple of the other models (photos from ... «New Statesman, Jan 13»
Healthy is the New Skinny: Group Challenges Body Image …
Life, liberty and the pursuit of skinniness, it sometimes seems, has become America's new motto. Whether it is the influence of parents, friends, or images in the ... «New America Media, Sep 11»
Tyra Banks Praises Girl for Skinniness; See Megan Fox's New …
Tyra Banks Praises Girl for Skinniness; See Megan Fox's New Armani Campaign. Also, Marc Jacobs may have gone to Morocco to look for inspiration. «New York Magazine, Aug 10»
When "Skinny" Means "Black"
In the Aug. 1 Wall Street Journal, Amy Chozick asked, "[C]ould Sen. Obama's skinniness be a liability?" Most Americans, Chozick points out, aren't skinny. «Slate, Aug 08»
