unguarded, high-wire act/ diplomacy, bonfire, vanities, judgemental

After High-Wire Diplomacy, Biden Faces Tough New Middle East Tests

• Officials are considering how to recalibrate policy following the cease-fire between Israel and the Palestinians, without distracting from other priorities.
• In the short term, President Biden is taking steps to increase American engagement. More broadly, officials are weighing approaches to de-escalate conflict.

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David Cameron: people from Yorkshire hate everyone, including themselves

Twitter backlash after prime minster’s unguarded comment in Leeds while...

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Miller explores the conversation about conversation among such great writers as Cicero, Montaigne, Swift, Defoe, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, and Virginia Woolf. He focuses on the world of British coffeehouses and clubs in “The Age of Conversation” and examines how this era ended. Turning his attention to the United States, the author traces a prolonged decline in the theory and practice of conversation from Benjamin Franklin through Hemingway to Dick Cheney. He cites our technology (iPods, cell phones, and video games) and our insistence on unguarded forthrightness as well as our fear of being judgmental as powerful forces that are likely to diminish the art of conversation.

For Twitter, Free Speech Is a High-Wire Act

Tom Wolfe's high-wire act of language has provided a sort of cultural funhouse mirror ever since he started publishing in the mid-1960s, first as a journalist and later as the acclaimed author of novels The Bonfire of the Vanities and A Man in Full. Wolfe occasionally raises hackles, and he always provokes a response.

judgemental

Line breaks: judge|men¦tal

Pronunciation: /dʒʌdʒˈmɛnt(ə)l /(also judgmental)

ADJECTIVE

1Of or concerning the use of judgement:judgemental decisions about the likelihood of company survival

1.1Having or displaying an overly critical point of view:I don’t like to sound judgemental, but it was a big mistake

Derivatives

judgementally

ADVERB

high wire

Translate high wire | into Italian | into Spanish

noun

• a high tightrope.
• [as modifier] denoting an activity requiring great skill or judgement:the high-wire act performed daily by many mental health workers

high wire
n.
A tightrope for aerialists that is stretched very high above the ground.

idiom:
high-wire act Slang.

1. A risky job or operation.

high-wire high'-wire' (hī'wīr') adj.




篝火泛指一般在郊外地方，透過纍積木材或樹枝搭好的木堆或高台，在活動裡燃點的火堆。在歐洲，燃點營火是慶祝仲夏節的活動之一。「篝火」這個字在歐洲多個的語言裡，都是由「骨」和「火

bonfire[bon・fire]

• 発音記号[bɑ'nfàiər | bɔ'n-]

[名]大かがり火；たき火

make a bonfire of ...
…を焼き捨てる.

［後期中英語banefire （BONE＋FIRE）. 昔, 厳粛な行事で, 疫病で死んだ人や罪人の骨を燃やした］」這兩個字來組成，反映出這項活動過去的歷史。在過往凱爾特人還在歐洲大陸生活的年代，他們在慶祝夏季完結的薩溫節（Samhain）時，會把動物的骨頭壘疊在一起焚燒，以圖趕走邪靈。時至今日，這種做法仍然在愛爾蘭保留，但一般只限在萬聖節前夜或仲夏節燃燒。

bonfire

英語で は焚き火を「a fire」「a bonefire」焚き火をすることを「build a fire (bonfire)」と表記する。bonfireについては後期中英語のbanefire (bone+fire) が語源であり、疫病で死んだ人や罪人の骨を燃やす昔の厳粛な行事が語源であるとされる^[9]。

unguarded

ʌnˈɡɑːdɪd/

adjective

1. 1.

   without protection or a guard.

   "the museum was unguarded at night"

   synonyms:

   undefended, unprotected, defenceless, unfortified, unshielded,unarmed; More
2. 2.

   not well considered; careless.

   "an unguarded remark"

   synonyms:

   careless, ill-advised, ill-considered, incautious, thoughtless, unthinking,rash, foolhardy, foolish, indiscreet, imprudent, injudicious, ill-judged, ill-thought-out, unthought-out, unwise; More