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A jump cut usually involves a jump through narrative time (as with the famous holiday greeting in Citizen Kane—a schoolboy Kane sulkily wishes his guardian "Merry Christmas", and the scene then cuts to the guardian wishing his charge, about to turn twenty-five, "and a Happy New Year") or an "elliptical" edit, wherein a shot of continuous ...
Bedford pressed military officers who had mistresses to marry them, and according to James Bickford, "gradually and sulkily the discomfited chiefs gave in." [3]
However, there is much more to Kant's definition of the sublime. He argues that the sublime in itself is so great that anything compared to it must necessarily be considered small. And, because of that, an important aspect of the sublime is the work of one's imagination to comprehend something so great that it seems inconceivable; thus, one ...
aardvark; aardwolf; aaron; aback; abacus; abaft; abalone; to abandon; abandoned; abandonment; abandons; abase; abased; abasement; abash; abashed; to abate; abated ...
In the 18th century, the Marquis de Condorcet was a political scientist who correctly perceived obscurantism as a contributing cause of the French Revolution in 1789.. In restricting education and knowledge to a ruling class, obscurantism is anti-democratic in its components of anti-intellectualism and social elitism, which exclude the majority of the people, deemed unworthy of knowing the ...
While sarcasm (harsh ridicule or mockery) is often directly associated with verbal irony (meaning the opposite of what is said) and the two are frequently used together; sarcasm is not necessarily ironic by definition, and either element can be used without the other. [33] Examples of sarcasm and irony used together: "My you're early!"
Left to right: replica alto, tenor and bass sackbuts, in Museu de la Música de Barcelona. Four sackbuts: two tenors, left & middle; alto, top; bass, right. A sackbut is an early form of the trombone used during the Renaissance and Baroque eras.
Verbosity, or verboseness, is speech or writing that uses more words than necessary. [1] The opposite of verbosity is succinctness. [dubious – discuss]Some teachers, including the author of The Elements of Style, warn against verbosity.