WHAT DOES DISTÁNT MEAN IN ROMANIAN?
Definition of distánt in the Romanian dictionary
DISTANCE (about yourself) (about people) Keeping the others away, displaying an air of superiority.
10 ROMANIAN BOOKS RELATING TO «DISTÁNT»
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distánt in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
distánt and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in Romanian literature.
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Distant Suffering: Morality, Media and Politics
The book concludes with a discussion of a 'crisis of pity' in relation to modern forms of humanitarianism. A possible way out of this crisis is suggested which involves an emphasis and focus on present suffering.
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Distant Waves: A Novel of the Titanic
Five sisters and their widowed mother, a famed spiritualist, travel from New York to London, and as the Titanic conveys them and their acquaintances home, the inventions of scientist Nikola Tesla will either doom or save them all.
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Distant View of a Minaret: And Other Stories
Alifa Rifaat, an Egyptian, lifts the veil on what it means to be a woman living within a traditional Muslim society.
Alifa Rifaat, Denys Johnson-Davies,
1987
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
In this revelatory work, Barbara W. Tuchman examines not only the great rhythms of history but the grain and texture of domestic life: what childhood was like; what marriage meant; how money, taxes, and war dominated the lives of serf, ...
The star in this hair-raising novel is Alberto Ruiz-Tagle, an Air Force pilot who exploits the 1973 coup in Chile to launch his own version of the New Chilean Poetry, a multimedia enterprise that symbolizes the darkness of Pinochet's regime ...
Roberto Bolaño, Chris Andrews,
2004
The essays in Distant Reading led to a new and often contested paradigm of literary analysis.
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Distant Ties: Germany, the Ottoman Empire, and the ...
As the first study to document the Baghdad Railway construction rather than the rhetoric surrounding it, this work challenges nearly a century of scholarship on German imperialism and Ottoman decline.
Jonathan S. McMurray,
2001
THE STORY: Thomas, a black construction worker, has just been asked to fill in for the injured foreman of his crew.
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Distant Mental Influence: Its Contributions to Science, ...
The book also describes the factors that make such distant mental influences more or less likely, so that anyone might use these distant influence skills more effectively and consistently for their own benefit and for the benefit of others.
Discovering that the old palace where he rents a tiny apartment is about to be demolished, Victorio, a lonely, middle-aged gay man, wanders the street in search of a new place to call home, encountering two unusual people--Salma, a young ...
Abilio Estévez, David L. Frye,
2004