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Fop was a pejorative term for a man excessively concerned with his appearance and clothes in 17th-century England. Some of the many similar alternative terms are: coxcomb , [ 1 ] fribble , popinjay (meaning 'parrot'), dandy , fashion-monger , and ninny .
This is a list of catchphrases found in American and British english language television and film, where a catchphrase is a short phrase or expression that has gained usage beyond its initial scope.
The war against poshlost' was a cultural obsession of the Russian and Soviet intelligentsia from the 1860s to 1960s. In his novels, Turgenev "tried to develop a heroic figure who could, with the verve and abandon of a Don Quixote , grapple with the problems of Russian society, who could once and for all overcome ' poshlost ', the complacent ...
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Mr. Rude is the 45th book in the Mr. Men series by Roger Hargreaves and the second one created by Adam Hargreaves. Mr. Mr. Rude is a red Mr. Man with a black hat, a rounded triangle body, a dark red nose, he also has a French accent (alluding to the stereotype that the French are rude people) and, as his name suggests, is rude to everyone.
Heroes is a 1998 novel written by Robert Cormier. The novel is centred on the character Francis Cassavant, a disfigured young man who has just returned to his childhood home of Frenchtown, Massachusetts , from serving in the Second World War in order to take revenge on a man who sexually assaulted his childhood sweetheart.
Byron c. 1816, by Henry Harlow. The Byronic hero is a variant of the Romantic hero as a type of character, named after the English Romantic poet Lord Byron. [1] Historian and critic Lord Macaulay described the character as "a man proud, moody, cynical, with defiance on his brow, and misery in his heart, a scorner of his kind, implacable in revenge, yet capable of deep and strong affection".
Roger's Profanisaurus is a humorous book (and for a short period commencing 2011; mobile app), published in the United Kingdom by Dennis Publishing which is written in the style of a lexicon of profane words and expressions. The book is marketed as "the foulest-mouthed book ever to stalk the face of the earth".