Lots of people think they’re clear. Phrases such as: ~ Make money ~ Financial freedom ~ Generational wealth are ambiguous. And you can't take action and be “mostly committed". That phrase is an oxymoron. (interestingly, the word oxymoron is from the root word "moros" meaning, "foolish...
We see many examples of literary devices in Shakespeare's poetry, such as alliteration, assonance, antithesis, enjambment, metonymy, metaphor, synecdoche, oxymoron, and personification. For a discussion of Shakespeare's use of figures of speech and specific examples from the sonnets, please see the...
Each entry is identified by part of speech, inflections, order of senses, examples of usage and etymologies. For example, the word "Humuhumunukunukuapuaa," pronounced just the way it looks, is the noun that identifies the state fish of Hawaii. Oxymoron means a rhetorical figure in which ...
But instead, you let a stranger come into your home on the day of the party, after your protégé repeatedly insisted the now-dead Longlegs had an unknown accomplice. Nic Cage’s “Hail Satan!” at the end of the film, in all its campy glory, pretty much making a mockery of everythi...
But let’s talk real life from yours truly. How have I been able to reap the rewards of Playing Offense? Below are four life examples of where I played offense and what outcomes transpired from the effort. From Mower to Marketer:A 21 year old me with longer hair, and grass stained eve...
We at the company, and in the SCN community, are very fortunate to have your leadership on these types of initiatives. Maybe one day the industry will coin a new term for "gamification" so that people (and companies) start taking it more seriously (oxymoron intended :wink: ). Until then...
The program has empowered me, and yet is so gentle and kind.Seems an oxymoron to speak about power and kindness in the same sentence, and yet this is the new woman, the woman I want to become and the woman this program helped me become: a woman who embraces her femininity, her vulner...
Explain how LA's new policy to reduce road deaths by decreasing car use has helped the city of LA. Discuss the concept of sustainable development. Explain why some argue that the concept of sustainable development is an oxymoron. How much t...
Timothy Graf –“Simple ADA compliance” is an oxymoron. Reply Paulo Gonçalves January 16, 2020 Amazing. Nick please consider improving the Woocommerce functionality like better ways to build Shop e Product Category pages. The process could be smother and with more options like show...
This book contains many examples of data analytics that have been useful during the past 20 years or so, which the authors classify as Big Data, but I believe this attribution is contrived. Not one of the examples demonstrates a radical departure from the past. Here’s one involving Google:...