10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WORNNESS»
Discover the use of
wornness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
wornness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Paradox and Perspicacity: Horizons of Knowledge in the ...
a sampling of objective, multifaceted "bits and pieces" whose virtue — a virtue
extending in exemplary fashion to Latin — consists in their wornness, desuetude,
and obsoleteness, their damaged thinghood or Dinglichkeit. In the case of Latin,
...
Robert G. Eisenhauer, 2005
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Cultural Memory and the Construction of Identity
And when he leaves, taking only one of them with him, the wornness by which
presence is transmitted will be transformed into the wornness of the worn-out.
Eric, who didn't want the shirts "all worn out before he could fit into them,"
discolors ...
Dan Ben-Amos, Liliane Weissberg, 1999
It expresses the straining of the relationship to each other of the molecules of
which the metal is constituted, a meaning which the term weariness, or literally
wornness, does not convey. Engineers are familiar with the fact that parts of ...
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The Rutland Magazine and County Historical Record: An ...
First established in 1695, it has been issued weekly without a break since the
time of Queen Anne, and exhibiting no signs of time-wornness it bids fair, like the
Brook, to go on for ever, or “till Doomsday in the afternoon," to quote a hrase used
...
The modern shafts are indicated by the absence of overgrowth and weather-
wornness ; and, of the latter, it must not be thought that all these workings are for
gold, or indicate the existence of gold-reefs. The wily native requires no teaching
...
North of England Institute of Mining and Mechanical Engineers, 1905
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Tales of Australian life
The mother changed into a bowed woman, with a worn face that caught such
light as there was but to show its wornness, and its frailness, and the shadows
begotten of them. The blind was not drawn over a little corner window that looked
...
Nathaniel Walter Swan, 1875
Since Dr. Conan Doyle ascribes the wit of Sherlock Holmes (whose Adventures,!
by the way, may now be studied collectively in a handsome volume, with plates
whose wornness tells a tale of the success of the Magazine in which the ...
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Popular Educator: A Magazine of Education
It was not hard, now, to understand the mixture of languor and nervousness, of
anxiety and indifference, of wornness and flippancy that had characterized the
group of teacher* who had dispersed to their rooms at the sound of the bell. I
thought ...
But even so, he could see a good deal of hard wornness under her satisfaction.
She had had her suffering, sure enough. But none the less, she was in the main
satisfied. She sat there, a good hostess, and expected the homage due to her ...
David Herbert Lawrence, 1922
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Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age
Lincoln Steffens filed the same report from Hamburg: "Everything is completed,
finished, squared off, — no rough edges, no dirt and no tearing down." To some
Americans, the time-wornness of Europe breathed despair and pessimism, ...
Daniel T. RODGERS, Daniel T Rodgers, 2009
5 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WORNNESS»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
wornness is used in the context of the following news items.
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The instability of unfired clay adds to a feeling of flux, but their pallid wornness ages them like archaeological finds. Two video works, If you broke me and I am ... «West Cork Times, Apr 15»
Staff Picks: Flavorwire's Favorite Cultural Things This Week
... a playground or an old woman singing from a nursing home – there's at once a wornness to it that makes it seem crushingly old and an unbridled emotionality ... «Flavorwire, Jul 14»
Picture this: 'Much Loved' teddy bears
While many of the bears are eerily dismembered, Nixon said that wornness is the ultimate indication of a teddy "much loved." What was your beloved childhood ... «CNN, Oct 13»
Asia: 'The Explosive Transformation'
... such as in the coffee shop Hamid's protagonist frequents in his old age, whose “faux-wornness” conceals the eviction of the fruit seller who previously stood at ... «The New York Review of Books, Apr 13»
The Sincerest Form of Lawsuit Bait
And yet it's their familiarity, their well-wornness, that makes them such tempting targets. If zombies were to turn up, for example, in Mrs. Gaskell's “Cranford,” it ... «New York Times, Aug 09»
