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Published: 01 April 2015
... between “philosophical” and “unphilosophical” probabilities developed in Part 3, which also considers the relationship between the vulgar, the wise man, and the radical (as opposed to mitigated) skeptic. These characters reappear at 1.4.1, and the radical skeptical paradox introduced there culminates...
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Published: 01 April 2018
... iconic gestures that were linked to the recitations of aḥādīth al-ṣifāt: pointing the index finger heavenward and raising both hands in prayer. The chapter highlights al-Ḥamawiyya al-Kubrā’s iconicity by addressing the derogative name ḥashwiyya (vulgar...
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Published: 19 November 2013
... to the vulgar films and the people who made them. Mintu the Murderer was not an exception as there had been (i) articles about the sexually explicit color pictures of the actress Jenny in the cheap pornographic magazines, Agomon and Manobjomin; (ii) articles...
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Published: 16 April 2008
...Bonzoku is a Buddhist term which, in the secular sense, means “dull, trite, commonplace, common, vulgar, inferior, and mediocre.” Shinkei offers examples of vulgarity in conception or feeling (kokoro). There is absolutely nothing vulgar in the imagery and diction...
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Published: 22 November 2007
... forward by the power of his own invention, and it is only when that fails that he feels the absence of that prop on which the weak-kneed habitually stay themselves. If a composer is naturally vulgar, let him be frank and write vulgar music, instead of hedging himself about with an artificial barrier...
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Published: 04 October 2018
... with which Dwivedi and other nationalists sought to shape an emergent nation. Chandradhar Sharma ‘Guleri’, in ‘Usne kahā thā’ (she had said), employed regional/ethnic speech that was also gendered, as masculine and vulgar, once again flouting Dwivedi’s preferences for an upright, Khari Boli standard. His...
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Published: 01 March 2012
...This section examines how a local spoken language that was derided for writing—the “vulgar” vernacular employed by Dante in The Divine Comedy—could be used for writing of the highest seriousness and quality. It also considers how such a language could eventually become accceptable...
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Published: 25 July 1991
...0 25 07 1991 Then arrived on the scene a vulgar tout who used to cadge his living everywhere round Ithaca and had the champion gluttonous belly of the world, that put no bounds to his eating or drinking : yet he got no muscle and no vigour by it, for all his bulky look. Arnaeus, his respectable...
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Published: 02 April 2019
... an account of, or a conversation about, man's place in nature or options for a sustainable future. As proof that this would no longer be vulgar anthropocentrism, it must be possible for enlightened anthropocentrism to conclude, perhaps sadly, that despite being uniquely gifted analytically and imaginatively...
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Published: 06 January 2015
..., as opposed to elite, usage and are rarely, if ever, found in Roman literary authors, unless these were explicitly seeking to mimic uneducated, semi-literate, or moronic people’s speech. Topics treated include: diastratic, diaphasic, and diatopic varieties of Latin, the now contested concept of “Vulgar Latin...
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Published: 06 January 2015
... variations of it. Loosely labeled “vulgar” or “colloquial” or, in certain contexts, “archaizing,” examples of such variant usages have often been taken as a sign of imperfect or partial literacy when they may more properly be seen as reflecting a perfect command of the written form of a living Latin language...
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Published: 01 September 2009
... Hume adopts is a function of the level of inquiry he is engaged in at various stages of his investigations. Not one, but four perspectives (or voices) are found in the Treatise: the confident projector of a science of human nature, an abject skeptic, the voice of the vulgar...
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Published: 10 September 2007
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Published: 16 January 2025
...’ mediates heartbreak and healing through a negotiation of pleasure, intimacy, vulnerability, and grotesque eroticism. Trinidad Carnival winin’ Afro-Caribbean women Afro-feminism dancing infidelity revenge vulgar laughter J’Ouvert 1  2019 (Port-of-Spain...
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Published: 21 April 2022
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Published: 02 September 2014
... or unreasonableness, its truth or falsity--but only on whether, in accordance with his purpose of providing a “science of MAN,” his explanation of why we have the belief is convincing. Furthermore, Hume identifies two versions of the belief: an ordinary or “vulgar” version that we all hold until we confront...
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Published: 29 May 2014
...This chapter introduces the problem of Milton’s understanding of ‘the people’ in his prose and verse, and maps the key terms in Latin, Greek, and English that he used. In Milton’s writing the terms ‘the people’, ‘the vulgar’, and their cognates move between different meanings, along the way...
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Published: 21 November 2011
... of racist discrimination against Koreans—that is, a movement from an unabashed and exclusionary “vulgar racism” to a new type of inclusionary and “polite racism” that denied itself to be racist even as it operated as such. bio power governmentality population in Foucauldian sense “right to kill” “right...
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Published: 20 September 2001
... that the city's role s the aesthetic capital of Europe was being jeopardized by the commercial transformation of the city. Critics pointed to the department store, its cheap commodities, and its vulgar shoppers as the most flagrant manifestations of the commercial age. This chapter also discusses the conservative...
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Published: 29 April 2010
...This chapter talks about the environmental factors and prescriptive geographies that surrounded the public life of books during postwar London. It discusses the popularity of the “vulgar” paperback in London, and how flamboyant book covers challenge the physical relationship of the book on display...