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71English Baroque — is a casual term sometimes used to refer to the developments in English architecture that were parallel to the evolution of Baroque architecture in continental Europe between the Great Fire of London (1666) and the Treaty of Justin (1713).Baroque …
72Sex and the City (film) — Infobox Film name = Sex and the City caption = Teaser poster director = Michael Patrick King producer = Michael Patrick King Sarah Jessica Parker Darren Star writer = Michael Patrick King starring = Sarah Jessica Parker Kim Cattrall Kristin Davis …
73Louis Bourdaloue — Louis Bourdaloue † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Louis Bourdaloue Born at Bourges, 20 August, 1632; died at Paris, 13 May, 1704. He is often described as the king of preachers and the preacher of kings. He entered the Society of Jesus at… …
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75Hegelians (The Young), Feuerbach, and Marx — The Young Hegelians, Feuerbach, and Marx Robert Nola Largely through lectures delivered at the University of Berlin, Hegel built up a circle of followers, mainly contemporaries or pupils, who were intent on working out aspects of the… …
76Lolita — 1) (1955) VLADIMIR NABOKOV was still a relatively unknown expatriate teaching Russian literature at Cornell University when he published Lolita in 1955. It was his eighth novel, and to this day it remains his most celebrated, if controversial …
77grandiloquent — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. pompous, histrionic, bombastic; see bombastic , oratorical . See Synonym Study at bombastic . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) (VOCABULARY WORD) a. [gran DIL uh kwent] using big words to try to impress, bombastic. Many… …
78overblown — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. superfluous, excessive, profuse, flowery; see oratorical , verbose . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. excessive, exaggerated, inflated, puffed up, overdone, overworked, immoderate, disproportionate. ANT.: modest,… …
79swollen — I (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. distended, puffed, swelled; see enlarged , inflated . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) a. enlarged, distended, bloated, puffy, puffed up, bulging, inflated, edemic, tumid, turgid. ANT.: deflated, contracted, shrunken III… …
80bombastic — [bäm bas′tik] adj. using or characterized by high sounding but unimportant or meaningless language; pompous; grandiloquent bombastically adv. SYN. BOMBASTIC refers to speech or writing that is pompous and inflated and suggests extravagant verbal… …
