undertone, sotto voce, aspersion, curtsy or curtsey, Undertones of War

The debate concerning the massacre took place mainly in the 1970s. During this time, the Chinese government's statements about the event were attacked by the Japanese because they were said to rely too heavily on personal testimonies and anecdotal evidence. Aspersions were cast regarding the authenticity and accuracy of burial records and photographs presented in the Tokyo War Crime Court, which were said to be fabrications by the Chinese government, artificially manipulated or incorrectly attributed to the Nanking Massacre.^[107]

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Undertones of War

DMUND BLUNDEN

252 pages | 5 1/4 x 8 | © 1928

“I took my road with no little pride of fear; one morning I feared very sharply, as I saw what looked like a rising shroud over a wooden cross in the clustering mist. Horror! But on a closer study I realized that the apparition was only a flannel gas helmet. . . . What an age since 1914!”

Undertones of War 思果先生譯書名：戰火低吟

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Undertones of War

Author	Edmund Blunden
Country	United Kingdom
Language	English
Genre	Memoir
Publisher	R. Cobden-Sanderson
Publication date	1928

Undertones of War is a 1928 memoir of the First World War, written by English poet Edmund Blunden. As with two other famous war memoirs-—Siegfried Sassoon's Sherston trilogy, and Robert Graves' Good-Bye to All That--Undertones represents Blunden's first prose publication,^[1] and was one of the earliest contributors to the flurry of Great War books to come out of England in the late 1920s and early 1930s.^[2]

Synopsis[edit]

Paul Fussell has called Undertones of War an "extended elegy in prose,"^[3] and critics have commented on its lack of central narrative. Like Henri Barbusse's Under Fire and Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, the text presents a series of war-related episodes rather than a distinct, teleological narrative.

undertone

noun

UK 

 /ˈʌn.də.təʊn/ US 

 /ˈʌn.dɚ.toʊn/

undertone noun (CHARACTERISTIC)

 

[ C ]

a particular but not obvious characteristic that a piece of writing or speech, an event, or a situation has:

I thought her speech had slightly sinister undertones.

It was a comedy act with an undertone of cruelty.

 

[ C ]

a colour, smell, flavour, etc. that is part of something but not the most obvious part:

The elephant's pale grey skin carries undertones of violet.

The gin has a unique crisp flavour that is very well-balanced with light, sweet undertones.

sot·to vo·ce (sŏt'ō vō'chē, sōt'tō vō'chĕ)


adv. & adj.

1. In soft tones, so as not to be overheard; in an undertone: "There were aspersions cast, sotto voce, but knees quickly folded into curtsies when introductions were in order" (Barbara Lazear Ascher).
2. Music. In very soft tones. Used chiefly as a direction.

[Italian : sotto, under + voce, voice.]

as·per·sion (ə-spûr'zhən, -shən)

n.

1. 1. An unfavorable or damaging remark; slander: Don't cast aspersions on my honesty.
   2. The act of defaming or slandering.
2. A sprinkling, especially with holy water.

aspersion

Line breaks: as¦per|sion

Pronunciation: /əˈspəːʃ(ə)n 

  

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NOUN

(usually aspersions)

• An attack on the reputation or integrity of someone or something:I don’t think anyone is casting aspersions on you

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Origin

late Middle English (denoting the sprinkling of water, especially at baptism): from Latin aspersio(n-), fromaspergere (see asperse).

Girl doing a curtsey in the painting La révérence by William Bouguereau

curt·sy or curt·sey (kûrt'sē)

A curtsey (also spelled curtsy or courtesy') is a traditional gesture of greeting, in which a girl or woman bends her knees while bowing her head. It is the female equivalent of male bowing in Western cultures. Miss Manners characterizes its knee bend as deriving from a "traditional gesture of an inferior to a superior."^[1] The word "curtsy" is a phonological change from "courtesy" known in linguistics as syncope.