10 LIBRI IN INGLESE ASSOCIATI CON «PUSHINGNESS»
Scopri l'uso di
pushingness nella seguente selezione bibliografica. Libri associati con
pushingness e piccoli estratti per contestualizzare il loro uso nella letteratura.
1
The Cruise Round the World of the Flying Squadron: ...
... the paymaster concerning the price of bullocks, which circumstance, small in
itself, will show perhaps better than a volume of literature, the secret to which the
great success of Melbourne is due: that being the pushingness of its inhabitants,
...
J. B, Henry F.C Cavendish, Sir Geoggrey Thomas Phipps Hornby, 1871
2
Dialectical Conversions: Donald Kuspit's Art Criticism
... plutocrats and for our Reds, for display and hard-headedness and warm-
heartedness, for arrogance and servility, for pushingness and reserve, for speech
and silence, for political participation and non-participation. If we desire
assimilation, ...
David Craven, Brian Winkenweder, 2011
3
Wide of the mark, by the author of 'Recommended to mercy', etc
Far into the night aunt Bal sat in her dressing-gown, over Mabel's fire, discussing
the pros and cons — the whether he had, or had not, proposed to that ' detestable
Irish girl.' ' I believe that she disgusted him by her pushingness,' Mabel said.
Matilda Charlotte Houstoun, 1871
He picked up the trade of slops ; he knows this, and he is one piece of
pushingness and cunning, so mamma says. Well, he gets seven hundred a year,
and an interest in the business as manager of a department, in the great city firm
of ...
5
The House as a Symbol: Joyce Cary and "The Turkish House"
... must accept the 'impossible' situation, that Chester will pretend that Tom is his
child; no '"decent"' man would admit to taking another's '"leavings"' — even
Chester, '"with all his pushingness. After all, the man is a cut above the Hottentots
"' (p.
6
The Unbound Prometheus: Technological Change and Industrial ...
The observers of the day join in picturing him as supple, ingenious, aggressive to
the point of pushingness, and occasionally unscrupulous. He had no antiquated
veneration of quality for its own sake, was skilled in meretricious presentation, ...
7
Jewish Art in America: An Introduction
... for our poverty, for our plutocrats and for our Reds, for display and for hard-
headedness and warm-heartedness, for arrogance and servility, for pushingness
and reserve, for speech and silence, for political participation and
nonparticipation.
... he got nearer to the real man in The Will to Love; he explained there not only
Harris's deficiences but also his qualities. He had Harris's pugnacity, his
brashness, his vulgarity, his pushingness, his dishonesty, his boasting, his
untruthfulness.
"It would have been asking too much of Chester with all his pushingness. After all
, the man is a cut above the Hottentots." In fact, what exactly was understood
between Aunt and Nimmo in this negotiation has never come out and never can ...
10
The Cambride Economic History of Europre
The observers of the day join in picturing him as supple, ingenious, aggressive to
the point of pushingness, and occasionally unscrupulous. He had no antiquated
veneration of quality for its own sake.'was skilled in meretricious presentation, ...
