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By observing that it is (i) a substantive-hungry word that is sometimes (ii) an adjuster-word, [28] as well as (iii) a dimension-word [29] and (iv) a word whose negative use "wears the trousers," [30] Austin highlights its complexities. Only by doing so, according to Austin, can we avoid introducing false dichotomies.
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Firing his pistol, Wyatt shot Johnny Barnes in the chest and Milt Hicks in the arm. Vermillion tried to retrieve his rifle wedged in the scabbard under his fallen horse, exposing himself to the Cowboys' gunfire. Doc Holliday helped him gain cover. Wyatt had trouble re-mounting his horse because his cartridge belt had slipped down around his ...
The words of Wyatt's poem can be read in two or more ways, as literal and symbolic with puns and riddles running through them. He was a master at the use of words. The first line is an antimetabole a type of chiasmus in which a sentence of ABBA structure, is exactly reversed: "They flee from me, that sometime did me seek," thus hinting at Wyatt ...
The skyline is quaint, looking more like Winston-Salem, N.C. than one of the 10 biggest cities in America. Then again, Austin was only the 16th biggest city in America (with about 700,000 people ...
In 2005 Wyatt published his book Quantum dynamics with trajectories with contributions by Corey J. Trahan. Wyatt holds a W. T. Doherty professorship in chemistry at the Austin University of Texas. [2] An October 2007 edition of the Journal of Physical Chemistry A is a Festschrift dedicated to the work of Robert E. Wyatt and his group. Wyatt has ...
In an amphibrachic pair, each word is an amphibrach and has the second syllable stressed and the first and third syllables unstressed. attainder, remainder; autumnal, columnal; concoction, decoction (In GA, these rhyme with auction; there is also the YouTube slang word obnoxion, meaning something that is obnoxious.) distinguish, extinguish