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A shrug is an emblem, meaning that it integrates the vocabulary of only certain cultures and may be used in place of words. [3] In many countries, such as the United States , Sweden and Morocco , a shrug represents hesitation or lack of knowledge; however, in other countries, such as Japan and China , shrugging is uncommon and is not used to ...
With a Gallic shrug, Fed bids adieu to the recession that wasn't. Howard Schneider, Indradip Ghosh ... By one common, though not technically accurate, definition the country had already entered a ...
Gaulish or Gallic is the name given to the Celtic language spoken in Gaul before Latin took over. According to Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic War, it was one of three languages in Gaul, the others being Aquitanian and Belgic. [22]
Gallic is an adjective that may describe: ancient Gaul (Latin: Gallia), roughly corresponding to the territory of modern France pertaining to the Gauls; Roman Gaul (1st century BC to 5th century) Gallic Empire (260–273) Frankish Gaul (5th to 8th centuries) A Latinism for France, the French people, and their customs
A Gallic warrior dressed in Roman lorica hamata with a cloak over it.Wearing a torc around his neck, he also wields a Celtic-style shield although the proportions of the body and the overall realism are more in line with Classical and Roman art than with the Celtic depictions of soldiers.
The Irish word gall did originally mean "a Gaul", i.e. an inhabitant of Gaul, but its meaning was later widened to "foreigner", to describe the Vikings, and later still the Normans. [15] The dichotomic words gael and gall are sometimes used together for contrast, for instance in the 12th-century book Cogad Gáedel re Gallaib.
The Ludovisi Gaul is a Roman copy of the early second century AD, of a Hellenistic original, ca 230–20 BC. The original bronzes may have been commissioned by Attalus I of Pergamon to celebrate his victory over the Galatians, the Celtic or Gaulish people of parts of Anatolia.
The attitude of the filmmaker seems to be: Our lives, in the current climate, are so cantankerous and messy, so mired in the latest iteration of the gender wars, that if a little unfaithful action ...