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‘Dictionary of Fine Distinctions’ Review: Subtle Shades of Meaning
Readers in both camps will doubtless find themselves making lists of words and concepts that this small volume omits (or overlooks): maybe the oft-neglected distinction between “regularly” and ...
The New Criterion2y
Shades of meaning
As Pastoureau demonstrates in White: The History of a Color, however, the meaning of the color is much deeper and more various than the specious connotations dreamed up by cultural Marxists.
The Jerusalem Post Blogs5mon
'Dictionary of Fine Distinctions': A book on subtle differences in the English language - review
Dictionary of Fine Distinctions merits study at your leisure. Burnstein describes his little volume as “Nuances, Niceties, and Subtle Shades of Meaning.
The Art Newspaper1y
Shades of meaning: a new publication looks at how Britain moved into the age of technicolour
On first reading this book’s title, I immediately thought of Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), which tells the story of the secret development and deployment of rockets by the ...
The Jerusalem Post Blogs6mon
In My Own Write: Shades of meaning
Shades of opinion on a topic don’t give readers ... “So congenitally blind children are taught the meaning and associative value of color – for example, ‘grass is green’ and ‘the ...
National Review2y
Shades of Meaning
How the Winds roar, How ghosts are tortured on the Stygian shore, Bellow the same trite nonsense through the shades.