Julian Barnes on when a young Guy de Maupassant — born today in 1850 — was invited to lunch at the holiday cottage of Algernon Swinburne. A flayed human hand, pornography, the serving of monkey meat, and inordinate amounts of alcohol, all made for a truly strange Anglo-French encounter
"[Money] is certainly something she thought about."
Jane Austen would have been 'gobsmacked' by a new coin honouring her
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'I am gobsmacked, everyone is,' said one senior party figure.
Jeremy Corbyn has confounded his many critics
Labour may increase share of vote but remain in opposition for next five years
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Zeena herself, from an oppressive reality, had faded into an unsubstantial shade.
連細娜這人也由咄咄逼人的實體褪成一個虛無縹緲的影子。
For the past few weeks Barack Obama has been flayed with headlines like "Unmitigated disaster" and "Barack Hussein Bush". A worrying 55% of Americans disapprove of the job he is doing; only 42% approve. Voters are gobsmacked at how badly he has bungled his health reform. Revelation after revelation suggests that Obamacare's awful first month reflects awful planning http://econ.st/1iC3Et4
The European Union is supposedly always enhancing its "four freedoms": the untrammelled movement of goods, people, services and capital. For European motorists, however, life is becoming ever more oppressive. As it is, seven EU countries, along with Switzerland, levy "vignettes", fees to use roads for a particular period that tend to favour local drivers over foreign ones http://econ.st/18rKHWb
dead weight of the past
Flaying - Wikipedia
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Flaying, also known colloquially as skinning, is a method of slow and painful execution in which skin is removed from the body. Generally, an ... A dead animal may be flayed when preparing it to be used as human food, or for its hide or fur.Urban Dictionary: lasterday
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A word used to describe an indefinite time in the past (e.g. last week, last month, last year). Rememberlasterday when we went to the beach? by Brian May 10, ...dead weight
or dead·weight (dĕd'wāt')
n.
- The unrelieved weight of a heavy, motionless mass.
- An oppressive burden or difficulty.
- (Abbr. DW) The fixed weight of a structure or piece of equipment, such as a bridge on its supports. Also called dead load.
vignette
Syllabification: (vi·gnette)
Pronunciation: /vinˈyet/
noun
1a brief evocative description, account, or episode.
2a small illustration or portrait photograph that fades into its background without a definite border.
a small ornamental design filling a space in a book or carving, typically based on foliage.
verb [with object]
portray (someone) in the style of a vignette.
produce (a photograph) in the style of a vignette by softening or shading away the edges of the subject.
Derivatives
vignettist
Pronunciation: /-ˈyetist/
noun
Origin:
late Middle English (sense 2 of the noun; also as an architectural term denoting a carved representation of a vine): from French, diminutive of vigne 'vine'
gobsmacked
Syllabification: (gob·smacked)
Pronunciation: /ˈgäbˌsmakt/
adjective British informal
utterly astonished; astounded.
Derivatives
gobsmacking
Pronunciation: /-ˌsmakiNG/
adjective
Origin:
1980s: from gob1 + smack1, with reference to being shocked by a blow to the mouth, or to clapping a hand to one's mouth in astonishment
oppressive
Line breaks: op¦pres|sive
Pronunciation: /əˈprɛsɪv/
Definition of oppressive in English:
adjective
1Inflicting harsh and authoritarian treatment:an oppressive dictatorship
1.1Weighing heavily on the mind or spirits:the offices present an oppressive atmosphere
2
(Of weather) close and sultry:the day was sunless and oppressive
Origin
Late 16th century: from medieval Latin oppressivus, from oppress- 'pressed against', from the verbopprimere (see oppress).[形]
1 〈支配者が〉圧制［圧政］的な，暴虐的な；〈税・処置などが〉不当にきびしい，過酷な，苦しい，つらい
oppressive worries
耐えがたい心痛
oppressive taxes
重税.
2 〈天候などが〉異常に蒸し暑い，不愉快にさせる，うんざりさせる；ふさぎこませる
oppressive heat
うだるような暑さ.
op・pres・sive・ly
[副]圧制［圧政］的に；重苦しく.
Pronunciation: /əˈprɛsɪv/
Definition of oppressive in English:
adjective
1Inflicting harsh and authoritarian treatment:an oppressive dictatorship
1.1Weighing heavily on the mind or spirits:the offices present an oppressive atmosphere
2
(Of weather) close and sultry:the day was sunless and oppressive
Origin
Late 16th century: from medieval Latin oppressivus, from oppress- 'pressed against', from the verbopprimere (see oppress).[形]
1 〈支配者が〉圧制［圧政］的な，暴虐的な；〈税・処置などが〉不当にきびしい，過酷な，苦しい，つらい
oppressive worries
耐えがたい心痛
oppressive taxes
重税.
2 〈天候などが〉異常に蒸し暑い，不愉快にさせる，うんざりさせる；ふさぎこませる
oppressive heat
うだるような暑さ.
op・pres・sive・ly
[副]圧制［圧政］的に；重苦しく.
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