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  2. Saudade - Wikipedia

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    The usage of saudade as a theme in Portuguese music goes back to the 16th century, the golden age of Portugal. Saudade , as well as love suffering, is a common theme in many villancicos and cantigas composed by Portuguese authors; for example: "Lágrimas de Saudade" ( tears of saudade ), which is an anonymous work from the Cancioneiro de Paris .

  3. End of history - Wikipedia

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    A postmodern understanding of the term differs in that: . The idea of an "end of history" does not imply that nothing more will ever happen. Rather, what the postmodern sense of an end of history tends to signify is, in the words of contemporary historian Keith Jenkins, the idea that "the peculiar ways in which the past was historicized (was conceptualized in modernist, linear and essentially ...

  4. Passions (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    The seventeenth century Dutch philosopher Spinoza contrasted "action" with "passion," as well as the state of being "active" with the state of being "passive."A passion, in his view, happens when external events affect us partially such that we have confused ideas about these events and their causes.

  5. Passion (emotion) - Wikipedia

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    Passion and desire go hand in hand, especially as a motivation. Linstead & Brewis refer to Merriam-Webster to say that passion is an "intense, driving, or overmastering feeling or conviction". This suggests that passion is a very intense emotion, but can be positive or negative. Negatively, it may be unpleasant at times.

  6. On Passions - Wikipedia

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    Thus a passion consists of two propositions: (1) this is something good/bad and (2) it is right that one should be affected by it. [53] In the case of distress, people believe that (1) something bad has befallen them, and (2) that one should shrink before it, producing not only the inner pain but the outward signs of distress such as weeping. [54]

  7. Lists of Merriam-Webster's Words of the Year - Wikipedia

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    (noun) Something from which something else originates, develops, or takes form; [24] a mold or die; an electroplated impression of a phonograph record used to make duplicate records. [25] (noun in biology) The substance in which tissue cells are embedded. [26] (noun in math) The arrangement of a set of quantities in rows and columns. [27]

  8. Passion (musical) - Wikipedia

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    Passion is a one-act musical, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and a book by James Lapine. The story was adapted from Ettore Scola's 1981 film Passione d'Amore, and its source material, Iginio Ugo Tarchetti's 1869 novel Fosca. Central themes include love, sex, obsession, illness, passion, beauty, power and manipulation.

  9. Cinephilia - Wikipedia

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    The term is a portmanteau of the words cinema and philia, one of the four ancient Greek words for love. [1] A person with a passionate interest in cinema is called a cinephile (/ ˈ s ɪ n ɪ f aɪ l / SIN-ih-fyle), cinemaphile, filmophile, or, informally, a film buff (also movie buff). To a cinephile, a film is often not just a source of ...