The Economist
February 7th sees the opening of the winter Olympics in Sochi on the Black Sea. The message of the games is simple: "Russia is back". Sochi was planned as a celebration of the country's resurgence. But the conspicuous dazzle of the games masks a country, and a president, in deepening trouble http://econ.st/1ffEugz
#Apple is not just unveiling a new iPhone this week. It is reintroducing the company.
February 7th sees the opening of the winter Olympics in Sochi on the Black Sea. The message of the games is simple: "Russia is back". Sochi was planned as a celebration of the country's resurgence. But the conspicuous dazzle of the games masks a country, and a president, in deepening trouble http://econ.st/1ffEugz
Japan nuclear safety upgrades dazzle, mask industry woes
Chicago Tribune
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's nuclear utilities face shareholders this week promising restarts of idled plants as soon as next month after costly safety upgrades, plans that look wildly optimistic given they are yet to secure either regulatory or local ...
New iPhone Conceals Sheer Magic
By DAVID POGUE
The iPhone 4S is loaded with dazzlers: faster speed, a camera that takes crisper shots, global reach and transformative voice recognition.
But if the ephemeral Being who has imagined these eternal
spheres and spaces, must dwell almost as an alien in their icy
vastness, yet what a splendour lights up for him and dazzles in
those great halls! Anything less limitless would be now a
prison; and he even dares to think beyond their boundaries, to
surmise that he may one day outgrow this vast Mausoleum, and
cast from him the material Creation as an integument too narrow
for his insolent Mind.
Slide Show: New York, Without the Dazzle
Highlights from the New York Auto Show in Detroit.
dazzle
verbnoun
Derivatives
dazzlement
noun
noun
daz·zle (dăz'əl)
v., -zled, -zling, -zles. v.tr.
- To dim the vision of, especially to blind with intense light.
- To amaze, overwhelm, or bewilder with spectacular display: a figure skater who dazzled the audience with virtuosic jumps.
- To become blinded.
- To inspire admiration or wonder.
The act of dazzling or the state of being dazzled.
[Frequentative of DAZE .]
dazzler daz'zler n.dazzlingly daz'zling·ly adv.
in·teg·u·ment (ĭn-tĕg'yʊ-mənt)
n.
- A natural outer covering or coat, such as the skin of an animal or the membrane enclosing an organ.
- Botany. The envelope of an ovule.
adj.
- Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant.
- Audaciously rude or disrespectful; impertinent.
[Middle English, from Latin īnsolēns, īnsolent-, immoderate, arrogant : in-, not; see in-1 + solēns, present participle of solēre, to be accustomed.]
insolent in'so·lent n.insolently in'so·lent·ly adv.
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In particular, Whorf announced, Native American languages impose on their speakers a picture of reality that is totally different from ours, so their speakers would simply not be able to understand some of our most basic concepts, like the flow of time or the distinction between objects (like “stone”) and actions (like “fall”). For decades, Whorf’s theory dazzled both academics and the general public alike. In his shadow, others made a whole range of imaginative claims about the supposed power of language, from the assertion that Native American languages instill in their speakers an intuitive understanding of Einstein’s concept of time as a fourth dimension to the theory that the nature of the Jewish religion was determined by the tense system of ancient Hebrew.
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