Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times
At Museum on 9/11, Talking Through an Identity Crisis
By PATRICIA COHEN
Exquisite sensitivities surround every detail in the creation of the
National September 11 Memorial Museum, which is being built on land that
many revere as hallowed ground.
Launchpad -- Fashion designer Prema Florence Isaac
You won't catch self-taught fashion designer Prema Florence Isaac dressed
in maudlin greys and blacks.
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You won't catch self-taught fashion designer Prema Florence Isaac dressed
in maudlin greys and blacks.
The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/
President Looks Back in Goodbye From Peru
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
An unfamiliar emotion — wistfulness — is settling in over President Bush and his White House.
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
An unfamiliar emotion — wistfulness — is settling in over President Bush and his White House.
Their most recent record is called Surer Days (Remedy Records, 2005). The songwriting is wistful without being maudlin. The music is rock-and-roll without being harsh. animosity,militant, wistful
maudlin
adjective ━━ a. 涙もろい; 泣き上戸の.
feeling sad and having a lot of pity for yourself, especially after you have drunk a lot of alcoholadj.
Effusively or tearfully sentimental: "displayed an almost maudlin concern for the welfare of animals" (Aldous Huxley). See synonyms at sentimental.
[Alteration of (MARY) MAGDALENE, who was frequently depicted as a tearful penitent.]
maudlinly maud'lin·ly adv.maudlinness maud'lin·ness n.
如果你讀者他的書 譬如說 伊斯坦堡等 就知道 WISTFUL之文風
Published: October 12, 2006
LONDON, Oct. 12 — The Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, whose exquisitely constructed, wistful prose explores the agonized dance between Muslims and the west and between past and present, won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature today.
LONDON, Oct. 12 — The Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk, whose exquisitely constructed, wistful prose explores the agonized dance between Muslims and the west and between past and present, won the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature today.
adjective
sad and thinking about something that is impossible or in the past:
a wistful smile
I thought about those days in Spain and grew wistful.
wistfully
adverb
"I would love to go back to Venice, " he said wistfully.
wistfulness
noun [U]
exquisite[ex・qui・site]
- レベル：大学入試程度
- 発音記号[ikskwízit, ékskwizit]
[形]
3 優雅な, 洗練された；上品な
exquisite manners
洗練された作法.
洗練された作法.
━━[名]しゃれ者, だて男(dandy).
［ラテン語exquīsītus（ex-十分に＋quaerere探し求める）十分探し求められた→絶妙な. △QUESTION, REQUEST, REQUIRE, CONQUER, CONQUEST］
ex・qui・site・ly
[副]優美に, 絶妙に, こって；非常に.
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