Word: dialectical
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Later, when he traveled to Peking in search of a job as a librarian, scholars laughed at his southern (Hunan) dialect. In this respect, Wilson said, Mao resembles leaders, all of whom came from outlying provinces, such as Napolean, a Corsican, Hitler, an Austrian, and Stalin, a Georgian...
Redford manages to tug the movie to a level that makes it worth seeing. In his first role since All the President's Men, he proves himself still capable of the twinkly eye and boyish, ultra-bright smile. The man can act. Except for several lapses in his Westernese dialect, he shows he can play more than Newman's or Hoffman's sidekick...
Then, a calm silence settled over the tundra. The rabid polar bear lay peacefully, harpoon through the throat, its guts coloring the bland snow. Justin kneeled, motionless. Kamik rubbed his arm violently in the snow, wailing in his native Eskimo dialect...
...tune is reminiscent of Peter Tosh's "Get Up, Stand Up." The note of class violence rings clear in Marley's warning--couched in Jamaican dialect--to the Jamaican elite...
...year-old boy ran into the room and hopped onto a monk's lap. The boy correctly called the disguised traveler "a lama of Sera," and identified two other members of his party as well. The child, named Tenzin Gyatso, spoke to the lamas in the court dialect of Lhasa, unknown to anyone in his district...