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A World Apart may refer to: A World Apart, a 1970–1971 daytime drama series on ABC; A World Apart, an anti-apartheid drama; A World Apart, an ...
The book title, A World Apart is an allusion to the Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel, Notes from the House of the Dead. An epigraph to Grudziński's book quotes Dostoyevsky: "Here there is a world apart, unlike everything else, with laws of its own, its own manners and customs, and here in the house of the living dead — life as nowhere else and a ...
the word (of unknown origin) has variously denoted a pantofle, a low thin sole shoe, a formal men's shoe (Reebok Pump) a brand of athletic shoe with an internal inflation mechanism usu. women's high(ish) heeled shoe (UK similar: court shoe, q.v.) punk follower of Punk rock
It managed only a minuscule 2.8 rating, making it the second-worst-rated soap on the three networks—ahead of only The Best of Everything, which aired just before A World Apart, at noon EST. (The ironically-named Best sported an even-worse figure of 1.8, one of lowest ever for a US soap opera.
[7] This pragmatic definition can already be found in Arnauld and Lancelot's Port-Royal Grammar, published in 1660: "We call a word what is pronounced apart and written apart." [8] In this sense, any isolated letter forms a word, even if it carries no meaning. Semantically, a word is defined as a morpheme, "the smallest unit of meaning."
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
A letter can be formal or informal, depending on its audience and purpose. Besides being a means of communication and a store of information, letter writing has played a role in the reproduction of writing as an art throughout history. [1] Letters have been sent since antiquity and are mentioned in the Iliad. [2]
Shawn Slovo (born 1950) is a South African screenwriter, best known for the film A World Apart, based on her childhood under apartheid. [1] She is the daughter of South African Communist Party leaders Joe Slovo and Ruth First.