Word: embeddedness
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But the French may forget that the Anglo-Americans could engage in that traditional tactic known as la riposte. Comfortably embedded in the English language are many French phrases that could be driven out. In the art of politics, coup d'etat might be replaced by kayo, laissez-faire...
A modest collection. Still, Walter Benjamin, unpacking his library, noted that "the chance, the fate, that suffuse the past before my eyes are conspicuously present in the accustomed confusion of these books." And there is, embedded in such infirm companions, a subtle aura, reminiscent of the sorrow which leaps up...
In the Bogside below, a huge combat bulldozer, its 76-mm. cannon shrouded in canvas and its turret turned backward (to avoid photographs reminiscent of the Soviet invasion of Prague), headed for its assigned target. It rammed through a barricade of cement blocks, twisted pipe and the hulk of a...
Under the searching Tuscan sunlight, the dialogue between the vast, worn stones of the fortress and Moore's luminously translucent Seravezza marble becomes a public conversation between two old friends. This is appropriate, considering how deeply embedded Moore's work is in the Italian tradition of monumental form...
Most damaging of all is Lehman's dirty little mind. The book began with Portnoy explaining his mother's influence as well as her ubiquity: "She was so deeply embedded in my consciousness that for the first year of school I seem to have believed that each of my teachers...