Thomas HardyA Critical Spectrum
One recalls what William Hazlitt writes in ' My First Acquaintance with Poets ' –
the deep ' power and pathos ' evoked by poems like ... About “ The Idiot Boy '
Danby observes : ' Wordsworth ' s peculiar achievement is an irony of
detachment and lovingkindness ' ( Danby , 1960 : 50 ) . ... with surprise ,
impatience and disapproval : And why on horseback have you set Him whom you
love , your Idiot Boy ?
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For example : What kind of stupid idiot thinks he can tell people how to write their
mail ? • Double - check your humor — irony and sarcasm are easy to miss .
Sometimes , it helps to ... For example , if you send a PowerPoint presentation to
someone who doesn ' t have Microsoft PowerPoint , the file is useless . When in
doubt ...
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Surviving Your Stupid Stupid Decision to Go to Grad School
Cut out the letters, paste them on a blank sheet of paper, and anonymously send
your former thesis advisor ... uh ... let's say, feedback. • Earn three ... O delicious
irony! ... If your degree is a PhD, cross out "PhD" and write "Master's," so that you
can actually get a practical job. ... I'm a person who can afford a postage stamp.
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Which one is most likely to persuade the reader to take action ? ... I reported my
stolen credit card five days before any of these charges were made , and yet you
idiots have charged me for these purchases . The fine print you guys are so fond
of putting in all of your contracts says I am not ( I ' ll say it again just to help you
understand ) not responsible for these ... Use sarcasm ( bitter , derisive language
) and irony ( saying the opposite of what you actually mean ) carefully in your
writing .
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Modernist Irony Frost Eliot
( 206 ) To be ironic about banal ( stupid or sentimental ) culturally - received
ideas , setting oneself above them at a ... To subvert the cultural codes , it is
necessary to simply enact , or " write , " them without irony , for irony itself is one
of the ...
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SPIN
It's a stupid line of questioning, so I give a stupid answer just to piss people off. ...
One British music tabloid recently posed them under the headline, "Is She Really
Going Out With Him? ... Her brilliance involves turning rock'n'roll cliches inside
out with outrageous self-mockery, and yet because her melodies deliver a
profound emotional kick, her ironies are never harmless. ... Hatfield says she
found the phrase "become what you are" in Nietzsche, and you have to admit,
Nietzsche saw ...
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The Complete Idiot s Almanac of Business Letters and Memos
One way to stand out is to use humor, but be careful. As always in ... In creative
businesses, such as advertising and entertainment, humor can help your cause.
People in ... With the right tone — ironic, world- weary, light-hearted, whatever —
a remark about the weather or a commute can seem funny. With the ... 250 Part 4
> What Should I Write and When Should I Write It? Use the Right Kind of Humor.
Author: Tom Gorman
Publisher: Penguin Putnam
ISBN: 9780028617411
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Revolt of the Idiots
Meanwhile , I write , and observe , and write , and ask , and write , and think , and
write , and fantasize , and write , and — someday — I hope to put it all together .
Whatever happens , the history of the revolt of these idiots should be recorded
and preserved for a person to study ... from the beginning , is an attendant amid
so many doctors , professors , and other professionals is as lovely as it is ironic .
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DSCH Journal
Mozart is laughing at bad music by writing " bad " music . ... The march - theme in
the Seventh Symphony is an ironic statement about stupid music , but here stupid
music stands further ... most Western critics DSCH J : That ' s just your own
subjective regard the finale of Prokofiev ' s Sixth interpretation . Symphony as a
trivial travesty . But if one steps back , includes irony , and adds con - IM : Up to a
point .
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The Idiot Box
He admits , to be sure , that at times he writes sheer melodrama for the screen ,
as would be natural enough , since he is the ... To virtually this condition he has
reduced for television audiences two tragic stories by William Faulkner and one
harrowing tale by Henry James . ... The conclusion , though not tragic , is certainly
bitter and ironic ; a marriage occurs promising small happiness but insuring a ...
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The Art of Living
Fowler gets part of this right when he writes that irony consists in the use of words
intended to convey one meaning to the ... not used the adverb eirônikos in his
account of Socrates ' reply : Dear Alcibiades , it looks as though you are not
stupid ...
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Romantic Irony in French Literature from Diderot to Beckett
A true stoic ( Flaubert , says one critic , is only a stoic comedian ) would condemn
her beyond all possibility of redemption or forgiveness ; a true Christian ( Flaubert
, as Sartre says in L ' Idiot de la famille , is a chrétien malgré lui ) would ...
Author: Lloyd Bishop
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
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Literature Structure Sound and Sense
The Idiot
I expect you've lost your post, and have come up here to go into the case, and try
to get another post.' " ' How did you . . . know ? ' he asked in surprise. " ' It's
obvious from the first glance,' I said with involuntary irony. ... He told me his story,
a very common one. ... then he was deluded with promises ; then he was
answered with severity ; then he was directed to write something by way of
explanation ; then ...
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Lucifer Before Sunrise
It was one of many he had written to her , but never sent . ... Dare 1 - may 1 - write
frankly ? ... Don ' t spoil your life for money , or rather , don ' t think of it only as a
barrier against fear , the fear of loneliness . ... Thomas Hardy once wrote a book
of short stories called Life ' s Little Ironies . ... a devout Catholic , wrote that Hardy '
s work reminded him of ' the village atheist brooding over the village idiot ' .
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Marianne Moore
stupid man ; men are strong and no one pays any attention : stupid woman ;
women have charm , and how annoying they can ... The irony about authors , “
particularly those that write the most , ” about the supertadpoles of expression , ”
pretty ...
Author: George Wilson Nitchie
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Maximum Rocknroll
All the tours we ' ve done just melt in to this one , giant lour - memory thing I ' ve
no idea band , but that ' s really different kind of music . ... If you go to a place
where they have never MRR : So what were your influences back heard of you
and they are not even interested ... If you have a certain subject that you need to
write from people asking us to go there again . ... You have also included lots of
humor We also wanted to go back , because the first time and irony in the lyrics
and , in my ...
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