I remembered I had learnt 倦蝶 (tired butterflies) from a Chinese writer in an “italki” essay, which I now will use it to the fullest. Whoever that unknown writer is, “I thank you”. 倦蝶殘香早已逝 tired butterfly crippled/weak fragrance early already passed. Here 逝 also evokes the...
Another war, another reason to get US out!(THE LAST WORD)(Libyan international military intervention)(Essay)McManus, John F
Don’t expect the source of your hurt to be the source of your healing.Closureis an effective plot device in a lot of really lame movies. But there’s no such thing as closure in real life.Life is all about the flow. There aren’t any points where everything comes together and it ...
In informal situations, slang terms such as ‘broke,’‘penniless,’ or ‘down and out’ can be used. These terms are more colloquial and should be used carefully to avoid offense. What are some opposite words to ‘poor’ in the context of wealth?
message does not eradicate the question as to what it refers to, or why it has been produced in the first place. The acknowledgement of a desire does not solve the mystery surrounding its origin and object. But finding the signification of a message does imply that the meaning of that mess...
In her essay ‘The “Movie” Novel’ (1918), Virginia Woolf refers to this phenomenon pejoratively when she says of the [kind of] novel she is reviewing that ‘as in a cinema, one picture must follow another without stopping, for if it stopped and we had to look at it we should be...
While beneficial refers broadly to anything that provides a benefit, helpful is more focused on providing assistance or making something easier. The new software is beneficial for data analysis. Her detailed instructions were especially helpful during our onboarding process. Beneficial vs. Favorable Bene...
He also refers to an episode in this period{when?} of a prince who searched for Mañju’srii on Wu-t’ai shan, burning his own body as an offering. And he states that during the time of Pei Ts’i (550-577 CE) there were more than two hundred monasteries (sa.nghaaraama) ...
C stands for consumption; I for investment; G for government expenditures. X for exports; T for taxes and M for imports Where Ce is ecologically neutral or even positive, the same is true of Ie and Ge. The subscript i refers to the rate of interest that is advanced by the central bank...
1. A European spacecraft took off today to spearhead the search for another "Earth" among the stars. 2. The Corot space telescope blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from the Baikonur cosmodrome in Kazakhstan shortly after 2.20pm. 3. Corot, short for convection rotation and planetary ...