10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «UNSERIOUSNESS»
Discover the use of
unseriousness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
unseriousness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
On the
Unseriousness of Human Affairs: Teaching, Writing, ...
On the Unseriousness of Human Affairs is an instructive volume whose countercultural message is of vital importance.
2
The Scientifization of Culture: Thoughts of a Physicist on ...
For the rest, note that also unseriousness and superficiality help in sending off
people's desires and indignation empty-handed, without their becoming
rebellious. (Similarly, relativizing humour is more popular than the exposing kind.
) We see ...
Cornelis Willem Rietdijk, 1994
3
Reading Without Maps?: Cultural Landmarks in a ...
With these four works, Roth would make something of a reputation for "
unseriousness" for himself, a rather wide term covering a broad range of
accusations, from shallowness to self- hatred, from irresponsibility to obscenity. It
is a reputation ...
Christophe Den Tandt, 2005
4
The Stars Down to Earth
78 If the unseriousness of fascist propaganda has a considerable element of
joking and showmanship, the unseriousness of the secondary, minimalist,
occultism of Righter's column is more directly cognitive. People may not “believe
in” ...
5
Grabbing Your Destiny by the Horns: Finding Your Place in Life
... and good reasoning on your part, you may be able to soothe the other's anger
and so win to yourself a potential ally in your life's journey. Unseriousness—
Progress in life is far from the man who exercises unseriousness in his job and
life.
But it is also the border to an unseriousness which sustains art's seriousness by
keeping it at a distance from dogmatism and rigorism, from a labored
earnestness, however minimal, insecure, and ill-defined that distance maybe.
Without such ...
Alexander García Düttmann, 2009
7
Adorno: The Stars Down to Earth and Other Essays on the ...
78 If the unseriousness of fascist propaganda has a considerable element of
joking and showmanship, the unseriousness of the secondary, minimalist,
occultism of Righter's column is more directly cognitive. People may not “believe
in” ...
Theodor Adorno, Stephen Crook, 2002
“Luxurious unseriousness was what the outsmarter often felt the greater the
seriousness with which he conversed. Detailed, scrupulous, loquacious
rationality was generally to be suspected when Morris Sabbath was the speaker.
Though not ...
9
Open Heavens 2012: A Daily Guide to Close Fellowship with God
UNSERIOUSNESS. Psalms7-9 Memorise: Not slothful in business; fervent in
spirit; serving the Lord; Romans 12:11 Read: 2 Kings 13:14-19 fyou will manifest
as more than a conqueror that you are, you must first conquer ...
10
Models and Mirrors: Towards an Anthropology of Public Events
However, the unseriousness of play must not be confuted with irrelevance. Its
relevance to human existence is this very quality of absence of gravity, of the flux
and fluff of ongoing change, of the everpresent sense of the possible. To deny the
...
10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «UNSERIOUSNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
unseriousness is used in the context of the following news items.
Why Mike Huckabee probably won't be the evangelical darling this …
They exchanged their promising gubernatorial records for the easy unseriousness afforded by a Fox gig. Palin has since tried to move on to greener fields by ... «Washington Post, Jul 15»
America's Trump problem
The issue with Trump is that his approach can only be called “the politics of unseriousness.” He engages with no issue, merely offers a hostile and pithy sound ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
What Minecraft Teaches Me About Fatherhood
How hard it hits when you step back from a project you'd worked so hard to construct, only to realize that your innocent unseriousness about your grand vision ... «The Federalist, Jul 15»
On the Cusp of an Iran Deal, Israel Facilely Beats the War Drums
... but no seat at the table, has decided to mark the end of the nuclear negotiations with a salvo of decided unseriousness. I'm talking, of course, about the Israelis ... «The Nation., Jul 15»
The Insiders: The left's latest scare tactic – climate refugees
In the latest example of unseriousness, late last week Michael B. Gerrard, director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia Law School, wrote a ... «Washington Post, Jun 15»
White House Dossier
President Obama continues to cast a pall of unseriousness over his presidency, which was already of questionable seriousness, planning a weekend of golf out ... «White House Dossier, Jun 15»
The Dangerous Unseriousness of Rand Paul
“How the mighty have fallen!” crowed a blogger for Reason, the libertarian monthly. It was the summer of 2013, a few months after Kentucky Senator Rand Paul ... «Commentary Magazine, May 15»
The Unbearable Lightness of Obama's Anti-Terror Policies
Meanwhile, new revelations about accused Army deserter Bowe Bergdahl demonstrate Obama's unseriousness about the Taliban. According to my colleague at ... «Accuracy In Media, Apr 15»
Failure and Success in Michael Graves' Architecture
He needed irony as a shield in case someone accused him of unseriousness. His much-quoted saying, “The dialogue of architecture has been centered too ... «California Plannning and Development Report, Apr 15»
EJ Dionne Jr.: The Republicans' unserious budgets
For example, James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute headlined his commentary for The Week: “The disappointing unseriousness of the House ... «Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Mar 15»
