Word: notionally
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...half into just one of these creatures to kill it--never mind that there are literally thousands more swarming behind it. Imagine the audacity, then, the presumption, the unmitigated gall, for the movie Starship Troopers to expect the audience to be stunned, shocked, dismayed, titillated at the notion that these guys are going to eaten by the bugs. "See, look," the movie seems to say to you, "they're being eaten by bugs. Aren't you horrified...
...fact that "God," evidently arbitrarily, refuses to help Yerma calls sharply into question the idea of a just and merciful God; the notion that Yerma ought to accept her "fate" as a childless woman is caught up in her husband's insistence that she accept her "woman's place" within the walls of her house, never straying outside to the wild world that tempts her mysteriously. Garcia Lorca's complaints against the oppression of women come through sharply in some of the ideas which Yerma herself embodies: when Juan suggests that she resign herself to being childless, she reproaches...
...have a child with a man other than her husband is rebuffed by her with the insistence that she must maintain her family's "honor": "It is a burden that all [families] must bear." This is the very same "honor" which Juan feels is threatened by the very notion of women not being "shut up inside their houses...
...newest book, Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia, deals with, among other things, the notion of consuming culture: "How non-Americans often view the consumption of Big Macs and french fries as consuming American culture and everything associated with it," as put by Andrea O. Brobeil '98, one of his students and a literature concentrator...
...notion of the perfect whole, the ultimate solution, in which all good things coexist, seems to me to be not merely unattainable--that is a truism--but conceptually incoherent...