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Resistentialism is a jocular theory to describe " seemingly spiteful behavior manifested by inanimate objects.
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Resistentialism and is
The movement is a spoof of existentialism in general, and Jean-Paul Sartre in particular ( Jennings identifies the inventor of Resistentialism as Pierre-Marie Ventre ).
The slogan of Resistentialism is " Les choses sont contre nous " -- " Things are against us ".
Resistentialism and by
The term was coined by humorist Paul Jennings in a piece titled " Report on Resistentialism ", published in The Spectator in 1948 and reprinted in The New York Times.
Resistentialism and objects
" Finagle's Law " can also be the related belief, " Inanimate objects are out to get us ," also known as Resistentialism.
Resistentialism and .
* An expanded Report on Resistentialism, Paul Jennings, Town & Country magazine.
* Developments in Resistentialism.
* Eckler, A. Ross ( 2012 ) " Logological Resistentialism ," Word Ways: Vol.
*" On Language: Resistentialism ", New York Times Magazine ", Sept. 21, 2003
* The displacement of teaspoons study Resistentialism and missing teaspoons.
Several of his pieces touched on the invented philosophical movement of Resistentialism.
is and jocular
Apart from journalese and vaudeville gags, the anatomical is also found in jocular literature.
The `` belaboring '' is of course jocular, yet James was not lacking in fundamental seriousness -- unless we measure him by that ultimate seriousness of the great religious leader or thinker who stakes all on his vision of God.
Guising is devoid of any jocular threat.
There is a significant difference from the way the practice has developed in North America with the jocular threat.
Baʿal ul bayt in modern Levantine Arabic is widely used to mean the head of the household, literally ' Master of the House ' and has a somewhat jocular, semi-mocking connotation.
In this usage, the term denotes a literary technique employing a generally light-hearted tongue-in-cheek imitation of another's style ; although jocular, it is usually respectful.
" Fruit machine " is a jocular term for a device developed in Canada that was supposed to be able to identify homosexual people, or " fruits.
Rivalry between Australia and allies such as the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand is friendly and jocular in nature, as Australians often view these nations as members of an Anglosphere cultural tradition which has significant overlap with their own.
Because of the block's presence, Cinemax is most commonly given the jocular nickname outside the network, " Skinemax ".
This is a jocular look at some clichéd expressions in the popular literature of the time.
Also, whereas Paddy is often used in a jocular context or incorporated into mournful pro-Irish sentiment ( i. e. the songs Poor Paddy On The Railway and Paddy's Lament ), the term Taig remains a slur in almost every context.
* Turtles all the way down is a jocular expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the " unmoved mover " paradox
The jocular word mugwump, noted as early as 1832, is from Algonquian ( Natick ) mugquomp, " important person, kingpin " ( from mugumquomp, " war leader ") implying that they were " sanctimonious " or " holier-than-thou ," in holding themselves aloof from party politics.
Citing Leno's larger audience and earlier time slot, Fletcher agreed to appear on The Tonight Show, where he presented Leno with a Louisville Slugger baseball bat and traded jocular barbs about the relative advantages of Kentucky and Los Angeles where The Tonight Show is filmed.
" Turtles all the way down " is a jocular expression of the infinite regress problem in cosmology posed by the " unmoved mover " paradox.
Cartoon physics is a jocular system of laws of physics that supersedes the normal laws, used in animation for humorous effect.
* Lo Fat-Lo Fat is the jocular, Chinese-American owner of Lo Fat's Laundry ; a Chinese laundromat in New York City.
The term comedy of menace, which British drama critic Irving Wardle based on the subtitle of The Lunatic View: A Comedy of Menace ( 1958 ), by David Campton, is a jocular play-on-words derived from the " comedy of manners " ( menace being manners pronounced with a somewhat Judeo-English accent ).
However, in American English the-ess suffix is only marginally morphologically productive, and the-ette suffix can indicate a feminine version of a noun without a change in size ( though many such words in-ette were intended to be jocular when they were first coined ).
The term is used as a proud or jocular self-description.
The term " Herman the German " is also commonly used by English speakers as an affectionate name for the Hermannsdenkmal-and also as a jocular term for ( male ) Germans in general.
The " War of the Whiskers " ( c. 1152 – 1453 ) is a jocular term for the long conflict between medieval France and England, referring to the refusal of Louis VII of France to shave his newly acquired taste for a beard ( i. e. " whiskers ") he had grown while fighting during the Crusades.
Rarely, the term is used as a jocular, possibly slightly flattering description.
Although the term with its current meaning has sometimes had negative connotations and sometimes jocular connotations, in recent years its pejorative qualities have lessened so " bimbo " is now often used as a more neutral, or even friendly, term.
is and theory
What is the history of criticism but the history of men attempting to make sense of the manifold elements in art that will not allow themselves to be reduced to a single philosophy or a single aesthetic theory??
Accordingly, it is the aim of this essay to advance a new theory of imitation ( which I shall call mimesis in order to distinguish it from earlier theories of imitation ) and a new theory of invention ( which I shall call symbol for reasons to be stated hereafter ).
The central concern of Erich Auerbach's impressive volume called Mimesis is to describe the shift from a classic theory of imitation ( based upon a recognition of levels of truth ) to a Christian theory of imitation in which the levels are dissolved.
And it is clearly argued by Lord Percy of Newcastle, in his remarkable long essay, The Heresy Of Democracy, and in a more general way by Voegelin, in his New Science Of Politics, that this same Rousseauan idea, descending through European democracy, is the source of Marx's theory of the dictatorship of the proletariat.
Thus, in no ordinary sense of ' simplicity ' is the Ptolemaic theory simpler than the Copernican.
Analogously, anyone who argues that Einstein's theory of gravitation is simpler than Newton's, must say rather more to explain how it is that the latter is mastered by student-physicists, while the former can be managed ( with difficulty ) only by accomplished experts.
In a sense, Einstein's theory is simpler than Newton's, and there is a corresponding sense in which Copernicus' theory is simpler than Ptolemy's.
The strongest appeal of the Copernican formulation consisted in just this: ideally, the justification for dealing with special problems in particular ways is completely set out in the basic ' rules ' of the theory.
My reply is that I associate myself with all those who affirm that Gentile-Jewish relations should contribute to the theory and practice of human dignity.
Finally we may note that the idea appears in educational theory where its influence is at present widespread.
The point is that an ethical critic, with an assist from Freud, can seize on this theory to argue that tragedy provides us with a harmless outlet for our hostile urges.
In his study Samuel Johnson, Joseph Wood Krutch takes this line when he says that what Aristotle really means by his theory of catharsis is that our evil passions may be so purged by the dramatic ritual that it is `` less likely that we shall indulge them through our own acts ''.
But beginning, for all practical purposes, with Frederick Seebohm's English Village Community scholars have had to reckon with a theory involving institutional and agrarian continuity between Roman and Anglo-Saxon times which is completely at odds with the reigning concept of the Anglo-Saxon invasions.
that theory was and is sound.
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