Word: dissimilarities
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...Including, now, a Hollywood-style film set. Last decade one of Albany's famous sons, novelist Tim Winton, created a young surf rat not too dissimilar to Wade, and the children's TV series based on him, Lockie Leonard, has been shooting at the author's alma mater, Albany Senior High School. While the cost of lugging cast and crew more than 400 km south of Perth for the 21-week shoot undoubtedly cut into the $A7.5 million budget, the decision was a natural one for producer Kylie du Fresne. "Everything Tim writes about in the book is here...
...process at Harvard is not dissimilar from the practices of other elite schools, and it’s a formula colleges say has served them well over the years. The admissions procedure may be subjective, but it has survived the test of time...
...first I started listening to it as a joke, and then I fell in love.”She found connections between the metaphysical poetry she loved and the crooning she hated. In country music, she saw the same mastery of conceit—the unification of dissimilar ideas in an extended metaphor—that attracted her to the English Renaissance poet John Donne. Just as Donne created an elaborate metaphor likening the two feet of a compass to distant lovers, a country music songwriter compared a love affair to a trial and execution. She would later become...
...Theft should sweep Carey's writerly anxieties away. After the chaotic excesses of My Life as a Fake, his new narrative grabs you by the throat and proceeds with a comic urgency not seen since True History of the Kelly Gang. Artist Boone is not dissimilar from that novel's vociferous antihero. But instead of the colonial authorities, he's up against an ex-wife (his unnamed "alimony whore") and an art-world ?lite (including "the idiots at Sotheby's") intent on stripping him of all worldly assets and self-esteem...
...Jewish president. Thus the term anti-Semitism is redefined in a radically new way, so that the many and varied opponents of a college president, who happens to self-identify as Jewish, find themselves accused of being at least partly inspired by racial bigotry. This new meaning is entirely dissimilar from the conservative and historically stable definition of “anti-Semitism.” The technical term in rhetoric for such a change in the meaning of a word is catachresis: “the application of a term to a thing which it does not properly denote...