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Aposiopesis – an abrupt stop in the middle of a sentence; used by a speaker to convey unwillingness or inability to complete a thought or statement. Apostrophe – a figure of speech consisting of a sudden turn in a text towards an exclamatory address to an imaginary person or a thing.
A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.
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The guy asked to make another statement after getting a tongue lashing from the judge. And he did it again - telling her to go f**k herself. And got another 6 months.
Justice James C. McReynolds's dissent emphasized a body of case law, with sweeping statements about state control of education before suggesting the possibility that despite the majority opinion, Missouri could still deny Gaines admission. The decision did not quite strike down separate but equal facilities, upheld in Plessy v. Ferguson (1896 ...
She aptly described this procedure, speaking seriously, as a ‘talking cure’, while she referred to it jokingly as ‘chimney-sweeping’. 1 She knew that after she had given utterance to her hallucinations she would lose all her obstinacy and what she described as her ‘energy’; and when, after some comparatively long interval, she was ...
Sweep Away All Cow Demons and Snake Spirits [1] (Chinese: 横扫一切牛鬼蛇神; pinyin: Héngsǎo yīqiè níuguǐ shéshén [2]), alternatively translated as Obliterate All Ox Demons and Snake Spirits, [3] Sweep Away All Ox-ghosts and Snake-spirits, [4] is an editorial published by the People's Daily on June 1, 1966, [5] calling on the masses to rise up and "sweep away all cow demons and ...
The last image we have of Patrick Cagey is of his first moments as a free man. He has just walked out of a 30-day drug treatment center in Georgetown, Kentucky, dressed in gym clothes and carrying a Nike duffel bag.