How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms. R. W. Holder. 2014.
poetic resolution — by Gerry Coulter Baudrillard possessed a radical temperament which held more in common with poetry than other forms of thought and writing (TE). Poetry and the poetic appear numerous times in his writing but the most important concept… … The Baudrillard dictionary
truth — noun 1 what is true ADJECTIVE ▪ absolute, gospel (informal), honest (informal), real ▪ She takes everything she reads in the paper as gospel truth. ▪ complete … Collocations dictionary
poetic — adj. VERBS ▪ be, sound ▪ wax (AmE) ▪ It s very easy to wax poetic (= speak in a poetic way) about the sport of baseball. ADVERB ▪ very … Collocations dictionary
Gospel of Truth — The Gospel of Truth is one of the Gnostic texts from the New Testament apocrypha found in the Nag Hammadi codices ( NHC ). It exists in two Coptic translations, a Subachmimic rendition surviving almost in full in the first codex (the Jung Codex ) … Wikipedia
Ode: Intimations of Immortality — For the musical work by Gerald Finzi, see Intimations of Immortality. Poem s title page from 1815 collection of Poems Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (also known as Ode, Immortality Ode or Great Ode) is a… … Wikipedia
Plato: aesthetics and psychology — Christopher Rowe Plato’s ideas about literature and art and about beauty (his ‘aesthetics’) are heavily influenced and in part actually determined by his ideas about the mind or soul (his ‘psychology’).1 It is therefore appropriate to deal with… … History of philosophy
literary criticism — Discipline concerned with philosophical, descriptive, and evaluative inquiries about literature, including what literature is, what it does, and what it is worth. The Western critical tradition began with Plato s Republic (4th century BC). A… … Universalium
Spanish literature — Introduction the body of literary works produced in Spain. Such works fall into three major language divisions: Castilian, Catalan, and Galician. This article provides a brief historical account of each of these three literatures and… … Universalium
Islamic arts — Visual, literary, and performing arts of the populations that adopted Islam from the 7th century. Islamic visual arts are decorative, colourful, and, in religious art, nonrepresentational; the characteristic Islamic decoration is the arabesque.… … Universalium
ITALIAN LITERATURE — Influence of the Bible As in other European cultures, the Bible became known to the Italian literary and cultural world through the Latin Vulgate, which was extensively studied in medieval times and, to a lesser extent, in the humanist period of… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
