Word: hinting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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These few excerpts may give an idea of the book's surrealistic character, but one has to read it to experience the full randomness of his prose. Some of the stories seem to hint at some theme or another, but more often the events in a particular story seem like the Yourgrau chose them at random, just to see how ridiculous his story could...
...Commander in Chief had said. "The nation faces this year, just as it did last year, a tremendous deficit in the federal budget," the Congressman intoned. "But in the President's message there was no sense of sacrifice on the part of the government, no assignment of priorities, no hint of the need to put first things first...
...Monday's brief strike could hint at a more serious labor walk-out, one student said...
...himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effect. A hint of nostalgic, anti-academic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludicrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities...
...habitual clowning. Amid the grim reality, McPherson's characters take childlike delight in simple things and maintain a giggly sense of humor. Bessie's father Marvin, unseen but for his shadow through a glass-brick wall, has been dying for two decades -- "real slow," Bessie explains with a hint of asperity, "so I don't miss anything." He still chortles in glee on seeing beams of light bounce off a hand-held mirror and play around the room. Bessie's sister, told she cannot smoke in a hospital, replies with steely illogic, "I'll be very quiet, then," and lights...