"Did the rabbis fomenting the notion that Rabin had betrayed his nation know what they were doing? Different nations have different styles of insinuation. In Israel, they cite sacred texts. In America, they 'joke.' They say 'Give me a break.'”
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Autobiography insinuates itself into all writing; coursing through the body of all texts, the choice of writing an autobiography, as such, is suspect.
"Here my lads is another messmate..." - What, another!" roared a ruddy-faced midshipman of about eighteen.
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In "Ravelstein," the instinct to use fiction for revenge gets free play. The late sociologist Edward Shils, a former friend of Bellow's, becomes Rakhmiel Kogon. "Kogon," Bellow writes in the novel, "was a nonbenevolent Santa Claus, a dangerous person, ruddy, with a red-eyed scowl and a face in which the anger muscles were highly developed." At one point, Ravelstein insinuates that Kogon was homosexual. (Shils was married with a son.)
... that ruddy-headed gentleman shone in at the door, like an elderly Phoebus. ..
Charles Dickens--Little Dorrit--CHAPTER 28頁1031 (臘格先生 Rugg)
這位滿頭紅光的先生便亮進來 是一位上了年紀的太陽神
ruddy-headed 即紅頭髮
Winter's Tale
Act 4, Scene 4
SCENE IV. The Shepherd's cottage.
PERDITA
Bight Phoebus in his strength--a malady
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and
adj., -di·er, -di·est.
- Having a healthy, reddish color.
- Reddish; rosy.
- Chiefly British Slang. Used as an intensive: “You ruddy liar!” (John Galsworthy).
ruddy (COLOUR) Show phonetics
adjective
red:
He was ruddy-cheeked from the walk in the cold.
Her face was ruddy and healthy-looking.
ruddy (EXPRESSION) Show phonetics
adjective [before noun], adverb UK OLD-FASHIONED INFORMAL
used to avoid saying bloody to express anger or annoyance:
"Ruddy hell!"
Phoebus
(fē'bəs)n.
- Greek Mythology. Apollo, the god of the sun.
- The sun.
[Middle English phebus, from Latin Phoebus, from Greek phoibos, shining, Apollo.]
verb [T]
to suggest, without being direct, that something unpleasant is true:
[+ (that)] Are you insinuating (that) I'm losing my nerve?
What are you insinuating, Daniel?
insinuating
adjective
suggesting ideas without stating them directly:
She didn't reply - she merely smiled that insinuating smile.
Both songs are in danger of being banned for their sexy, insinuating lyrics.
insinuation
noun [C or U]
[+ that] We resent these insinuations that we are not capable of leading the company forward.
insinuate yourself into sth phrasal verb [R] FORMAL DISAPPROVING
to use clever, secret and often unpleasant methods to gradually become part of something:
Over the years she insinuated herself into the great man's life.
to use clever, secret and often unpleasant methods to gradually become part of something:
Over the years she insinuated herself into the great man's life.
insinuation
NOUN
in・sin・u・ate
━━ vt. 徐々に入り込む; 取入る ((into)); ほのめかす, あてつけを言う ((to)).
in・sin・u・at・ing, in・sin・u・at・ive ━━ a.
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