10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «TWEENESS»
Discover the use of
tweeness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
tweeness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The Cotswolds: A Cultural History
Bill Bryson is far too good-natured to attack the Cotswolds although he does
complain, in Notes from a Small Island (1993), of a surfeit of “Chippings and
Slaughters and various Tweeness upon the Waters”. Ian Walthew's discovery of
the ...
2
Remembering the Cultural Geographies of a Childhood Home
The bluehaired, miniskirted, eversoslightly spacedoutyoung girl ofthe title, Crystal
Tipps, livesalone (well,aloneapart fromher faithful companion,Alistair thedog)in
anornate cottage that exudes MiddleEnglish tweeness. Despite being a ...
Dr Peter Hughes Jachimiak, 2014
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Oxford Thesaurus of English
noun a romantic fiction of unashamed sentimentality: mawkishness, over-
sentimentality, sentimentalism, emotionalism, overemotionalism; nostalgia,
pathos; romanticism; kitsch; Brit. tweeness; informal schmaltz, mush, slush, sob
stuff, ...
4
The Year of the Hare: A Novel
"Which of us has not had that wonderfully seditious idea: to play hooky for a while from life as we know it?" With these words from his foreword, Pico Iyer puts his finger on the exhilaratingly anarchic appeal of The Year of the Hare.
ust one—is it tweeness the little appendage that scarcely attracts attention on an
average day. Black? The hair on his head is blond, slowly turning brown. Why
that? There? Now? He wants to push this discovery away, as ifhe has a choice.
Donald L. Boisvert, Jay Emerson Johnson, 2012
6
How to Survive Puberty at 25
The grey, urban harshness of Sheffield compared to the green country tweeness
of my home. Sheffield felt real, frightening and dangerous. And that's when the
adventure would start. Freedom. On the train, careering through fields. Wombwell
...
7
The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland, and the Survival of the ...
At a relatively innocuous level, this integration could have an implicit tweeness or
condescension: Headlam's comments indicate one of the forms which this might
take, but Scots themselves could buy into a certain limited view of Scottishness.
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Communities and Technologies 2007: Proceedings of the Third ...
Since it is taking only the shortest path, then it "knows" its target from the origin [
19] These last assumptions make Freeman's be- tweeness centrality measure
unsuitable to be used in contexts where these assumptions do not hold, like the ...
Charles Steinfield, Brian T. Pentland, Mark Ackerman, 2010
9
Kate Bush and Hounds of Love
But for all its romanticism and tweeness, I find it an affecting fantasy of certain
aspects of Englishness, with a strong emphasis on a child's best construction of
the wonders of growing up amidst London's sights, sounds and factual and
fictional ...
10
Life in Body: Writings from House of Mercy
And I am not grasping for certainty, because I am a traveler, a pilgrim, Frodo
Baggins, and pilgrims don't grasp for certainty. Be- tweeness is the essence of
traveling. And yet no literary hero ever travelled without hope—you can't travel
without ...
Mark Curtis Anderson, 2004
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «TWEENESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
tweeness is used in the context of the following news items.
David Walliams solves a mystery in Agatha Christie's Partner's in …
... best detectives. David Walliams and Jessica Raine in Partners In Crime (BBC1) stripped out the tweeness and gave us grown-up lovers we could believe in. «Daily Mail, Jul 15»
Savages: 'Who we are today is a reaction to tweeness'
Case in point: "You're an all-female line-up," asked one interviewer last year, "but you play far more intense music than the tweeness that might suggest. «Gigwise, Jul 15»
I Have Never Liked The Little Prince, I Will Never Like The Little Prince
... the dark, inescapable future, countless more will silently beg for the sweet release of death while being subjected to its cruel smugness and hollow tweeness. «TheStranger.com, Apr 15»
New book demonstrates (tasteful) crafting with books
Tweeness aside, sometimes ragged books or books scored from the library's free bin beg to be repurposed. That's where "Novel Living," by California-based ... «Chicago Tribune, Feb 15»
Captain Toad Treasure Tracker review: Toadally awesome
... music will drive you round the bend, and playing as Toad or Toadette, who communicate only in squeaks, often descends from cutesiness into tweeness. «Pocket-lint.com, Dec 14»
The inexplicable popularity of the Great British Bake Off shows we …
Can anyone stop the tsunami of twee? It seems not. Britain is being swallowed up by tweeness. Like a B-movie style blob, only pink and sugary rather than black ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Aug 14»
Great British Bake Off, review: The show is back, hitting a sweet spot …
GBBO makes no apologies for its tweeness or its terrible puns, but detractors sometimes forget that these are not the only ingredients in the show's success. «The Independent, Aug 14»
Quilt – Arctic Shark
Fox-Rochinski also understands that psychedelic tweeness must be used sparingly. “All my heavy dreams are simply luxury,” she acknowledges, “the horses in ... «MOJO, Nov 13»
Portlandia-licious: Everyone's Favorite Hipster-Mocking Show …
After HBO's Girls, there really is only one show that perfectly encapsulates the adorka-suicidable tweeness of today's 20-somethings, and that is Fred Armisen ... «New York Observer, Nov 12»
Ruby Sparks – a charming, quirky debut by Zoe Kazan
But Dayton and Faris can't resist an opportunity to indulge in "cutesy caricatures" or moments of "gratuitous tweeness". This type of Sundance quirk "can ... «The Week UK, Oct 12»
