I promise I don’t mean this in a facetious way: Why did you write “Consider the Turkey”? It’s a small book. There aren’t really new arguments in it. Could that time have been better spent doing something else?
Are the poor and“The Lady Eve” may be Preston Sturges’s most beloved film. Henry Fonda plays Charles (Hopsie) Pike, a lanky heir to an ale fortune who dabbles as a snake expert. While travelling on a cruise ship, Hopsie falls for a con woman named Jean Harrington (Barbara Stanwyck). After realizing that Jean has been deceiving him, he sulks off to his Connecticut manor, where he encounters Jean again, though this time she has disguised herself as Lady Eve Sidwich, a louche aristocrat. The zany setup involves several layers of self-deception—a theme Sturges explores in many of his films. Read more about the master of the screwball comedy: http://nyer.cm/vo2JqB0 marginalized the most severely impacted by epidemics?
Here we go back to what I said earlier, that epidemics each have their own personalities. Some choose only particular groups disproportionately. Some, if I could be facetious, are more democratic; they affect everyone in a society. So it’s not true to say that the single key to epidemic disease is poverty.
Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times
On Eve of Sentencing, a Show of Solidarity
By MELENA RYZIK
On Thursday, a samizdat kind of crowd turned out in New York in support
of a Russian punk group whose three young members have been jailed in
Moscow since March.
. Losing My Religion: Critical Thinking May Weaken Faith
By Alexandra Sifferlin
Most
of the world's population believes in God, or gods, but alongside them
there are also hundreds of millions of nonbelievers. What makes one a
believer or not?"In his rapt attention to his subjects' work and their influence upon him, the book also offers a hesitant and tangential retelling of Derrida's own life in French philosophical history. There are illuminating and playful anecdotes—how Lyotard led Derrida to begin using a word-processor; how Paul de Man talked knowledgeably of jazz with Derrida's son. Anyone who still thinks that Derrida is a facetious punster will find such resentful prejudice unable to survive a reading of this beautiful work."—Steven Poole, Guardian
There is no arguing with faith. As the comedian and outspoken nonbeliever Bill Maher travels the world, interviewing Christians, Jews and Muslims in the facetiously funny documentary “Religulous,” you begin to wonder if there might be two subspecies of humans.
So, looking at Beijing from the standpoint of one who hasn't lived here in more than 20 years, let me be the one to express a slightly facetious nostalgia for the way Beijing was in the late 1970s and early 1980s, just before the economic explosion began.
I look at him and am struck by the aura of louche glamour he carries — like a lounge lizard who reads Flaubert — daring you to cause ripples in his carefully arranged and well-defended image. It is a daunting presentation — Stoppard referred to his "unfortunate and relentless facetious streak" in a talk with the theater critic John Lahr that I went to the day before — and I begin to understand, even before I try to draw him out, why everything I have read about Stoppard seems to recycle the same anecdotes and quips.
White Bordeaux: Oft-Forgotten Bliss
By ERIC ASIMOV There are some serious, potentially profound dry whites from Bordeaux, which takes almost literally the jocular maxim that the first duty of wine is to be red.
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| Words | 19. 立足 [li4zu2], v. i., stand on one's own feet, (lit. & fig.) 立足點 n., standpoint. |
“Maybe agnostics and atheists will embrace [The Good Book]; maybe Christians will embrace it too as a valuable collection of insights. It might begin as a curiosity and then flourish or remain a cult favorite or just a curiosity. I suppose some might be offended byThe Good Book but they needn't be. You don't have to be a nonbeliever to find solace and wisdom in the distilled ideas presented here.” – Huffington Post on The Good Book
samizdat (SAH-miz-daht)noun: An underground publishing system used to print and circulate banned literature clandestinely. Also, such literature.
Etymology
From Russian samizdat, from samo- (self) + izdatelstvo (publishing house), from izdat (to publish). Coined facetiously on the model of Gosizdat (State Publishing House).
Usage
"This remarkable little book (People Power Uli!) includes jokes, text messages, cartoons, and poems of the revolt. It is both funny and a valuable record of samizdat literature and Philippine popular culture." — Alastair Dingwall; Estrada's Fall From Grace; Far Eastern Economic Review (Hong Kong); Jan 17, 2002.
facetious
(fə-sē'shəs)adj.
Playfully jocular; humorous: facetious remarks.
[French facétieux, from facétie, jest, from Latin facētia, from facētus, witty.]
facetious adjective DISAPPROVING
not serious about a serious subject, in an attempt to be amusing or to appear clever:
facetious remarks
He's just being facetious.
ìì a. ひょうきんな, こっけいな.
faˇceˇtiousˇly ìì ad. faˇceˇtiousˇness ìì n.jocular
adjective FORMAL
1 amusing or intended to cause amusement:
a jocular comment
2 describes someone who is happy and likes to make jokes:
Michael was in a very jocular mood at the party.maxim
noun [C]a brief statement of a general truth, principle or rule for behaviour
standpoint
noun [C]
a set of beliefs and ideas from which opinions and decisions are formed:
"I have to put aside my emotions, " he says, "and consider it from a professional standpoint."
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