Buckley, the Right WordRandom House, 1996 - 524 páginas "William F. Buckley, Jr., who is even more well known for his supple vocabulary, productivity, and remarkable range of interests than for his politics, provides a one-man show of English in action. By examining the variety of ways in which he employs language, and the responses to them, the reader who delights in words will delight in these exchanges of opinion about the many meanings of language." "Not all the rewards are in Buckley's own words. Drawing on his correspondents, his friends, his critics, and the work of others, the text provides provocative examples, discussion, and, often, debate in various voices." "Much of Bill Buckley's extraordinary mail is concerned with questions of usage. Generous samplings of that correspondence appear along with major essays, columns, interviews, introductions, articles, reviews, and appreciations. There is, too, a Buckley Lexicon, hundreds of words he employs, giving definitions plus examples of their uses from his published writings."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved |
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... reader who misses the refinement ? Well , what of the lis- tener deaf to the special reach of the C augmented eleventh ? That reader has the usual choices : he can ignore the word ; attempt , from the context , to divine its meaning ...
... reader who misses the refinement ? Well , what of the lis- tener deaf to the special reach of the C augmented eleventh ? That reader has the usual choices : he can ignore the word ; attempt , from the context , to divine its meaning ...
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... reader should sense the incompleteness . This is sometimes a mat- ter of formal grammar : if we start with " because " the reader won't accept a full stop until he's been accorded a principal clause . It's sometimes just a matter of ...
... reader should sense the incompleteness . This is sometimes a mat- ter of formal grammar : if we start with " because " the reader won't accept a full stop until he's been accorded a principal clause . It's sometimes just a matter of ...
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... reader too much to supply , and too many options for supplying the wrong tacit commentary , e.g. , that WFB is ... reader hasn't yet a feel for the governing structure of taste in the piece before him . Especially in an opening , the ...
... reader too much to supply , and too many options for supplying the wrong tacit commentary , e.g. , that WFB is ... reader hasn't yet a feel for the governing structure of taste in the piece before him . Especially in an opening , the ...
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adjective adverb American asked Bill Bill Buckley Blackford Oakes Buckley Buckley's called Churchill Clare Boothe Luce column Cordially course critics Cruising Speed Dear Dear Bill dictionary Doubleday & Company editor English Erika Evelyn Waugh father feel Firing Line G. P. Putnam's Sons give happened High Jinx INTERVIEWER John kind language Latin Left and Right letter Liberalism look magazine matter Mayor means mind moral National Review never Norman Mailer noun novel Overdrive person political President problem Professor question Random House reader Regnery Books Right Reason ROSE Rumbles Left Saving the Queen sense sentence social someone Soviet speak speech Stalin Stein & Day style talk tell thing thought tion told Tom Wolfe Tucker's Last Stand Unmaking verb Viking Press Waugh week William F words write wrote Yale York young
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Sound-Alikes: A Dictionary of Midwestern American English Homophones Frank P. Hogan Sin vista previa disponible - 2008 |