10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WOEBEGONENESS»
Discover the use of
woebegoneness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
woebegoneness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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LECTURES ON THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH OF SCOTLAND
The thorough woebegoneness of that image used to haunt me long — that old bit
of granite, the ideal of human sorrow, weakness, and woebegoneness. To this
day it will come back before me — always with that dumb gaze of perfect ...
ARTHUR PENRHYN STANLEY, 1872
... himself in a great crowded salon ; and looking from the one end across the sea
of heads, being in Swift's place of calm in a crowd,* he saw at the other end a
strange visage, staring at him with an expression of comical woebegoneness.
... himself in a great crowded salon ; and looking from the one end across the sea
of heads, being in Swift's place of calm in a crowd,* he saw at the other end a
strange visage, staring at him with an expression of comical woebegoneness.
Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell, 1864
... WOBBLINESSES WOBBLING WOBBLY WOBEGONE WODGE WODGES WOE
WOEBEGONE WOEBEGONENESS WOEBEGONENESSES WOEFUL
WOEFULLER WOEFULLEST WOEFULLY WOEFULNESS WOEFULNESSES
WOENESS ...
Maliha Mendoza Mahmood, 2013
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Listening Up, Writing Down, and Looking Beyond: Interfaces ...
Rooney describes Donne's use of repetition and diction to create a “heavy
massing of meanings, denoting or connoting misery and woebegoneness” (379).
In the long passage quoted below, Donne employs several rhetorical figures of ...
Susan Gingell, Wendy Roy, 2012
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The Rising and the Hereafter:
... perform good acts later; but death may come earlier, and you maybe left alone
inyour woebegoneness. You are wrong to think that making tawba tomorrow will
be easier than making it today. For, the later the tawba is made, the more difficult
...
... Charmed magic casements, opening onthe foam Of perilous seasin fairy lands
forlorn. harmonize the earthly and the unearthly without ever showing the
grounds of such reconciliation. peril and the woebegoneness ('forlorn')touchan
anxiety ...
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Making Sense of History
During a difficult interview, Muggeridge was 'struck at one by the
woebegoneness of his expression; but more like a clown's than a martyr's' In
1944, Muggeridge attended a Requiem Mass in Notre Dame for heroes of the
Resistance. A pistol ...
Geoffrey Partington, 2013
There was also the fact to consider that the appendage which one might now call
his goatee was at that time still more developed in relation to the rest of his face,
something which gave to the aggregate woebegoneness of his appearance a ...
... ness, woebegoneness. 3. pungency, piquancy, piquantness, tartness,
sharpness; flavorfulness, tastiness, spiciness, hotness; bitterness, sourness,
acidity, vinegariness, harshness; acerbity, mordancy, trenchancy, astringency.
loignant, adj.
Jerome Irving Rodale, 1978
4 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WOEBEGONENESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
woebegoneness is used in the context of the following news items.
A lonely, angry, sad-sack piner
won the bout, if there was one, and furrows his brow in epic woebegoneness in David Gordon Green's thick-as-sap character study, Manglehorn. Set in a small ... «Philly.com, Jul 15»
Jim Ingraham: Don't blame Brandon Weeden, blame those above him
The magnitude of Weeden's woebegoneness is a validation of how wrong-headed the decision was to draft him in the first place, in the first round, as a ... «News-Herald.com, Oct 13»
NOLA Contendere
On October 1, despite screeches of futile outrage from us peons and crustier protests by civic leaders that ended in Burghers of Calais-style woebegoneness, the ... «The American Prospect, Oct 12»
Picking Up Marbles With My Toes
But it was the look on the cat's face which struck me: determined, frustrated woebegoneness. The caption inside read: "I meditate, I do yoga, I chant, and still I ... «Restoration - Madonna House, Mar 08»
