constrict, auteur, upstanding, rakish, intrusion, midstream, canny, standing order

'Lincoln kept expanding the definition of equality pretty fearlessly, and I think now the present moment is more about constricting that — to say America is actually a white country, it’s actually a country for rich people, and so on.'

George Saunders on Lincoln, Trump and winning the Man Booker

The American author explains how a great American president spurred him to create a new kind of novel

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Thurston Hopkins, who has died aged 101, was one of Britain’s greatest photojournalists, capturing the humanity and social inequality of British life in the 1950s. The Picture Post pioneer was also a canny chronicler of high society at its most intimate – from debutantes after the ball to Hitchcock in the shadows

Universities in U.S. Besieged by Cyberattacks From Abroad

By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA

The hacking attempts, many thought to be from China, are forcing universities to spend more to prevent and detect intrusions and to constrict their culture of openness.

 

 

The Auteur vs. the Committee
New York Times
The decisions reflect the sensibility of just one person: Steven P. Jobs, the CEO By contrast, Google has followed the conventional approach, with lots of people playing a role. That group prefers to rely on experimental data, not designers, ...

Vampires Meet Auteurs at Fan Fest

By BROOKS BARNES

The "Twilight" phenomenon showed no signs of abating at Comic-Con International in San Diego, where a studio presentation drew hundreds of ravenous fans.

The Marquise de Merteuil (Glenn Close) appears to be virtuous and upstanding, but in fact is a sexually ravenous, amoral schemer who plays games with men out of bitterness at the constricted station of women in her society. She decides to exact revenge on a recent lover by having his young new fiancee, Cécile de Volanges (Uma Thurman), the daughter of Merteuil's cousin Madame de Volanges (Swoosie Kurtz), seduced and ruined. Merteuil calls on her sometime-partner, the rakish and similarly amoral Vicomte de Valmont (John Malkovich), to do the deed. At first, Valmont refuses her proposition; he is busy trying to seduce the virtuous Madame de Tourvel (Michelle Pfeiffer), who is spending time at his aunt's manor house while her husband is abroad.

Language Reform

But Webster's principal interest became language reform. As he set forth his ideas in Dissertations on the English Language (1789), theatre should be spelled theater; crumb, crumb; machine, masheen; plough, plow; draught, draft. For a time he put forward claims for such reform in his readers and spellers and in his Collection of Essays and Fugitiv Writings (1790), which encouraged "reezoning, " "yung" persons, "reeding, " and a "zeel" for "lerning"; but he was too canny a Yankee always to allow eccentricity to stand in the way of profit. In The Prompter (1790) he quietly lectured his countrymen in corrective essays written plainly, in simple aphoristic style.

Through the deal, Kinder Morgan will become the biggest of North America's midstream energy companies, which are entities that process oil and gas products before transporting them to production facilities. Kinder Morgan will own or operate about 67,000 miles of pipelines stretching across the continent.

	standing order 1 ((もと))《軍事》内務規定；作業標準. 2 ((the 〜s))（議会の）議事規則. 3 ((通例〜s))（新聞・雑誌の）定期購読. 4 [C][U]((英))（銀行への）自動振替.
	standing order Translate standing order | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish noun 1British an instruction to a bank by an account holder to make regular fixed payments to a particular person or organization. 2British an order for a commodity placed on a regular basis with a retailer such as a newsagent. 3an order or ruling governing the procedures of a parliament or other society or council. 4a military order or ruling that is retained irrespective of changing conditions.

midstream(mĭd'strēm')
n.

1. The middle part of a stream.
2. The part of a course that is neither at the beginning nor at the end: the midstream of life.

 upstanding,

[形]((形式))

1 直立した

Be upstanding.
起立（▼法廷での判事の入退室時やディナーでの乾杯のときにいう）.

2 正直な, りっぱな, 率直な.

3 体が丈夫な.

constrict	(verb) Become tight or as if tight.
Synonyms:	constringe, narrow
Usage:	Severe migraines can be treated with a drug which constricts the blood vessels.

 constrict

• 発音記号[kənstríkt]

verb

[with object]

• make narrower, especially by encircling pressure:chemicals that constrict the blood vessels (as adjective constricted)constricted air passages
• [no object] become narrower:he felt his throat constrict
• (of a snake) coil around (prey) in order to asphyxiate it.
• inhibit or restrict:the fear and the reality of crime constrict many people’s lives

Derivatives

constrictive

Pronunciation: /-tiv/

adjective

Origin:

mid 18th century: from Latin constrict- 'bound tightly together', from the verb constringere (see constrain)

[動](他)

1 …を引き締める, 締めつける；…を圧縮する, 収縮させる

be constricted in the middle
中央がくびれている.

2 〈成長・発展などを〉抑える, 止める, 妨害する.

con・stricted

[形]締めつけられた, 拘束が多い.

con・stricting

[形]拘束的な.

rakish[rak・ish²]

 

• 発音記号[réikiʃ]

[形]((古風))放蕩(ほうとう)な, 不品行な；みだらな.

rak・ish・ly

[副]

rak・ish・ness

[名]
auteur,
(ō-tûr', ō-tœr')
n.
A filmmaker, usually a director, who exercises creative control over his or her works and has a strong personal style.

[French, from Old French autor, author. See author.]

電影界: "作者論"

canny

Line breaks: canny

Pronunciation: /ˈkani

  

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ADJECTIVE (cannier, canniest)

1Having or showing shrewdness and good judgement, especially in money or business matters:canny investors will switch banks if they think they are getting a raw deal

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2Northern English & Scottish Pleasant; nice:she’s a canny lass

Origin

late 16th century (originally Scots): from can¹ (in the obsolete sense 'know') + -y¹.