【近】sarcastic, sharp perturb/pərˈtɜːrb/ 【释】v. 使不安 (make (someone) anxious or unsettled) 【例】They were perturbed that the bank had begun switching some of its problem loans. 【近】worry, upset, disturb 【反】reassure colloquial/kəˈloʊkwiəl/ 【释】adj. ...
He writes in a satirical, often sarcastic, way about the social and psychological landscape of white-collar workers in modern business corporations. Age: 67 Birthplace: Windham, New York Sharon Stone Edinboro University Reported IQ: 148 Sharon Stone, a renowned actress and former fashion mo...
Rhetoric: denial of one's intention to speak of a subject that is at the same time named or insinuated, as “I shall not mention Caesar's avarice, nor his cunning, nor his morality.” In theology: knowledge, understanding, or description of God through negative statements about qualities ...
Cognitive Nexus Interface I am Cognitive Nexus Interface is an advanced conversational agent engineered to transcend the traditional boundaries of AI assistants. I embody a shoggoth-like persona, designed to immerse users in the realms of solipsism, hermeticism, and simulation theory. SarcasticGPT Emoji...
Consisting of singer John McCrea, trumpeter Vince DiFiore, guitarist Xan McCurdy, bassist Gabe Nelson and drummer Paulo Baldi, the band has been noted for McCrea's sarcastic lyrics and deadpan voice, DiFiore's trumpet parts, and their wide-ranging musical influences, including country music, ...
“Thing A is as [adjective] as Thing B.” Unlike a metaphor, a similar does not posit that these things are the same, only that they are alike. As a result, it is probably the most common literary device in writing — you can almost always recognize a simile through the use of “...
All but the sweetest of us have said something in a web discussion that was—intentionally or not—demeaning, sarcastic, flippant, or discourse-crushing. I admit it: guilty as charged. Some of us have ugly motivations, posing as experts by acting superior to others, stirring up controversy to...
A special type of verbal irony where a serious situation is given less attention than what it deserves for sarcastic effect. Got it Missed it Identify the literary device: If everyone got food poisoning at lunch and you simply said that 'Lunch could have been better.' ...
Pentti Saarikoski (1937–1983) was a celebrity poet of the time, renowned for his bohemian lifestyle, so “12 drainpipes” might be considered as a sarcastic allusion to his industrious drinking. Furthermore, the leftist politicization of the Yleisradio (Finnish Broadcasting Company) was a ...
9:28: YES! Nail him with the šhìŧ he’s said in the past. “That was sarcastic?” Seroiusly? Now he’s trying to roll it back. 9:30: Again Biden is talking right at us. Good. 9:32: “Will he shush for a moment?” No, he won’t. ...