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Letter "R" » rattling
«The proverbial German phenomenon of the verb-at-the-end about which droll tales of absentminded professors who would begin a sentence, ramble on for an entire lecture, and then finish up by rattling off a string of verbs by which their audience, for whom the stack had long since lost its coherence, would be totally nonplussed, are told, is an excellent example of linguistic recursion.»
Author: Douglas Hofstadter
| Keywords:
absentminded, coherence, droll, finish off, finish up, German, lecture, nonplussed, phenomenon, professors, proverbial, ramble, ramble on, rambling, rattle off, rattling, recursion, stack, stacked, stacks, string, tales, verb, verbs
«I never hear the rattling of dice that it does not sound to me like the funeral bell of the whole family»
Author: Douglas Jerrold
(Humorist, Journalist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
bell, dice, dicing, funeral, rattled, rattling, The Funeral
«It was a dark and stormy night and the rain fell in torrents except at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene lies), rattling along the housetops, and fierce»
«To be human is to keep rattling the bars of the cage of existence hollering, ''What's it for?''»
«Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not; / The noise of a whip, and the noise of the rattling of the wheels, and of the pransing horses, and of the jumping chariots.»
«Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.»
Author: George Orwell
(Essayist, Novelist)
| About:
Advertising
| Keywords:
advertising, bucket, buckets, rattled, rattling, stick, swill, swilling
«I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.»
«Did ye not hear it? - No; 'twas but the wind, / Or the car rattling o'er the stony street;/ On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; / No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet / To chase the glowing Hours with flying feet.»
Author: Lord Byron
| Keywords:
chase, flying, glowing, let fly, morn, rattled, rattling, sleeping car, stony, The Car, unconfined
«War makes rattling good history; but Peace is poor reading»
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