It is called oxymoron (矛盾修辞法) in English Rhetoric. And it means a combination of two words that seem to mean the opposite of each other, such as cruel kindness, a bitter sweet experience,deafening silence, a mournful optimist and so on. What does melancholy pride mean? 6 When I ...
What is an oxymoron? What does 'on the flip side' mean? What are antonyms for rational? What does the suffix -less mean? Is 'worstest' a word? What is an antonym of somber? What is a double metaphor? What are words with negative connotations?
Chapter 1 A TALE OF TWO TRACES – DIPLOMATICS AND FORENSICS Fred Cohen Abstract This chapter focuses on two examples of legal matters involving archived data, one is a digital archive of born-analog data and the other is a digital archive of born-digital data. Their resolution is explained,...
Proceeding in this manner the art intelligencia has produced a definition of fine art of such breadth that it encompasses almost everything. Thisreductio ad absurdum(is that an oxymoron?) is diluting the whole concept of fine art. In some cases one can no longer distinguish art from a random...
(Trying to Combine Grace and Works is a Deadly Oxymoron) Study #0331 [Sept 27, 2020] 1st Half--Scripture reading from Romans 11:10-172nd Half--Corruptions of Christianity: Catholicism p6(Indulgences Will Not Give You Bonus Points For Heaven) Study #0330 [Sept 20, 2020] 1st Half--...
In order to see how the oxymoron that war can be an instrument of peace could be true, we must first ask exactly what we mean by peace. Peace, according to St. Augustine, is the “tranquility of order.” He goes further and says that “order is the distribution which allots things eq...
• Oxymoron (矛盾修辞法/逆喻) true lies; open secret; glorious defeat; kind cruelty; dully bright; cry happily; orderly chaos; bitter-sweet memories curtsy: [ ‘kɜ:tsi ] n. 弯膝盖盍身体而行的礼 The ballerina bobbed a curtsy (to the audience) before leaving the stage. ...
The leftovers can be spent for things like Trump’s presidential library, which is the grandest oxymoron ever. In all fairness, more than a dozen of Trump’s $1 million donors also donated to Biden’s inauguration. Back to the $239 million for the inauguration… Brazilian meat company JBS,...
Whereas Agee and Canby saw the film as an inspired instance of what the Ministry of Information wanted from its strained and, as I have argued, avowedly oxymoronic ideal of a “democratic propaganda,” these writers see it as ideologically reductive: it was propaganda pure and simple.Depending...