ellauri097.html on line 147: Mencken countered the arguments for Anglo-Saxon superiority prevalent in his time in a 1923 essay entitled "The Anglo-Saxon," which argued that if there was such a thing as a pure "Anglo-Saxon" race, it was defined by its inferiority and cowardice. "The normal American of the 'pure-blooded' majority goes to rest every night with an uneasy feeling that there is a burglar under the bed and he gets up every morning with a sickening fear that his underwear has been stolen."
ellauri109.html on line 474: Translations of the fable were familiar enough in Britain but the subject of male bonding left some readers uneasy (as it very obviously did Elizur Wright). Eventually there appeared an 18th-century version in octosyllabic couplets that claimed to be ‘improved from Fontaine’. Here the couple are a male and female named Columbo and Turturella.
ellauri276.html on line 804: Tho´ deil-haet ails them, yet uneasy:
ellauri488.html on line 523: Bottom line. You’re not imagining the pattern—but it’s less about nationality and more about television shorthand. And yes, it often is used to make you slightly uneasy about whether the character should actually be trusted. If you want, I can break down other “TV phrases” that are secretly doing more narrative work than they look like.
ellauri501.html on line 617: 1. The Left-Wing BacklashMany Latin American intellectuals and leftist critics felt Llosa was using the historical tragedy to validate his own rightward political evolution.Erasure of the Poor: Critics accused him of stripping the Brazilian peasants of their legitimate socioeconomic agency. By framing their rebellion as a symptom of religious madness rather than a fight against starvation and landlord tyranny, he made the oppressed look like irrational fanatics.Anti-Revolutionary Propaganda: Leftist reviewers criticized the character of Galileo Gall as a cheap caricature. They argued Llosa constructed a "straw man" anarchist to mock contemporary Marxist revolutionaries and delegitimize 20th-century Latin American liberation movements.The "Objective" Illusion: Critics were highly uneasy with Llosa's implication that he was writing from a neutral vantage point of "common sense". They argued his claim of being "against all dogmas" was itself a deeply ideological, neoconservative defense of the capitalist status quo.
xxx/ellauri139.html on line 790: Where lay the Porter, in uneasy sprawl, Portilla portieeri on juonut portteria.
xxx/ellauri179.html on line 360: “Well, what am I to call you?” He looked uneasy and his eye twitched to the left when he smiled. Underneath his eye was a four inch scythe-shaped scar.
xxx/ellauri183.html on line 103: And Malamud himself -- still frail from a recent illness -- at first appears an improbable Isaiah. With his tidy demeanor, incessant self-editing ("no, wait, there's a better word . . . ") and deadpan, scrupulous style, he could be the most successful publican in Galilee. He is uneasy with talking about himself ("that kind of stuff, it's not up his alley," says his publicity-hungry "friend" Philip Roth) and seems reluctant to start. He pauses to choose among several pairs of glasses, then sits down carefully, feet flat on the floor, long fingers knitted in his lap. Finally, with the anxious geniality of a brave man settling in for root canals, he says, "Now then, I think we can begin."
xxx/ellauri486.html on line 67: Beginning with Americana and continuing through End Zone, Great Jones Street, Ratner’s Star, Players, and Running Dog, he had proven himself a shrewd, somber, grimly oracular chronicler of an uneasy period bookended by Nixon and Reagan, with Vietnam, Watergate, and other sundry crimes in between. A true historical shit sandwich. Se vähä minkä olen DeLilloa lukenut on ollut bullshittia.
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