| 单词 | effacement |
| 例句 | He puts his face, his body, his voice, his own life into his film as an existential act of self-assertion against his effacement by the regime. Jafar Panahi’s Remarkable “Taxi” 2015-10-13T04:00:00Z But as she shifts away from brazen self-effacement to describe the people whose countries she’s stumbling through, the jokes get stale. Hangover in a Strange Land 2010-08-27T15:04:00Z For her, the effacement of giving oneself over to ghosts is painfully mirrored in reality. Shelley Jackson, Author and Advocate of the Monstrous 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z In other words, each artist was armed with a different form of recorded media, finding common ground in effacement. Marclay at the Whitney: Listening on the Couch 2010-07-15T16:15:00Z Hutchinson said the issue is not just effacement — historical neglect has had a material impact on Black artists in the industry. Black Artists Pioneered Electronic Music. This Festival Celebrates Them. 2022-02-23T05:00:00Z Rather, he was embarrassed by the movie’s emphasis, its trivialization and effacement of the experience of the actual protagonists. The Rarely Seen Ingmar Bergman Thriller That Bergman Himself Rejected 2018-09-06T04:00:00Z That effacement of Cleo’s character, her reduction to a bland and blank trope that burnishes the director’s conscience while smothering her consciousness and his own, is the essential and crucial failure of “Roma.” There’s a Voice Missing in Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” 2018-12-18T05:00:00Z Problems of displacement and effacement in the Bay Area continue to intensify. “The Last Black Man in San Francisco” and the Fear of Being Erased 2019-06-07T04:00:00Z Being a cheerleader need not mean the effacement of difference. Megan Abbott on Cheerleaders in Pop Culture 2012-07-27T15:27:38Z The King Charles spaniel in the foreground of this scene escaped effacement. Picasso Becoming Picasso 2023-05-11T04:00:00Z I met one with effacement in its very appellation. The Tipsy Diaries: In an Imperfect World, a Drink Made for It 2011-04-28T18:40:03Z This effacement of Aldrin came about because Apollo astronauts wore visors lined with gold to protect their eyes from sunlight. The greatest photos ever? Why the moon landing shots are artistic masterpieces 2019-07-17T04:00:00Z And this — the dissolution of the geopolitical entity in which it occurred — has contributed to its effacement: buried under the accretions of history like the radioactive debris smothered by “absorbents” during its cleanup. ‘Midnight in Chernobyl’ reveals the nuclear disaster's untold story 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Sacks’s emergence as a painter involved a similar process of effacement and exposure. An Artist’s Archeology of the Mind 2019-03-18T04:00:00Z This, for her family and many others, is the tragedy of the Halimi Affair: the effacement of an anti-Semitism that remains a real threat, especially in tense urban areas. In France, murder of a Jewish woman ignites debate over the word ‘terrorism’ 2017-07-23T04:00:00Z The most recent season of “House of Cards” was in some ways about the tricky algebra of effacement, assertion, subservience and ingenuity behind many women’s paths to power. Wonderful women fueltelevision’s new golden age 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z The poem gets progressively more nightmarish: the “tongue . . . inside my mouth” is an image for speech and for its effacement under circumstances that here seem ecstatic, there violent. Venus Reborn 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z To desentimentalize the Confederate banner and to insist on its removal from statehouse grounds should not mean the wholesale effacement of history. On Confederate symbols: Which ones should stay and which ones should go? 2015-06-26T04:00:00Z But the change was too late to prevent mischief; Russia, encouraged by England's effacement during Mr. Gladstone's sway, had matured her further plans, and had already put her secret intrigues into motion. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, November 1879 2012-04-25T02:01:12.830Z These risks, it must be remembered, are not transitory, but enduring; and if we accept them, we must be prepared for a doom of absolute effacement in the politics of Europe. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, October 1879 2012-04-18T02:00:17.060Z The traces must necessarily linger, but their ultimate effacement is only a question of time. Australian Pictures Drawn with Pen and Pencil 2012-04-02T02:00:28.873Z Thus it will be seen that under parliamentary government, the self effacement of the Sovereign is an impossibility. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z Though I think she had only herself to thank for her effacement, she was inclined to be offended. My Lady Rotha A Romance 2012-02-27T03:00:10.983Z He has fixed his gaze so intently on the miseries and agonies of life that he has been driven to the conclusion that nothing could be better than the effacement of the human race. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany 2012-02-11T03:03:52.627Z Where the tyrant asserted the claims of an oppressed class, he consciously aimed at the destruction of privilege and the effacement of class distinctions. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 4 "Grasshopper" to "Greek Language" 2011-11-28T03:00:19.517Z Her remedy seems to be effacement for herself and bribes for her young barbarians. The Open Question a tale of two temperaments 2011-10-25T02:00:22.173Z That effacement of an earlier régime had differed in important particulars from all analogous movements in earlier ages. Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country 2012-02-29T03:00:22.540Z The effacement of the French aristocracy is not to be laid at the door of the great Revolution, which acted only upon an accomplished fact; it was the personal work of Louis XIV. Louis XIV and La Grande Mademoiselle 1652-1693 2011-09-14T02:00:48.383Z And then with a careful effacement of the final saving trace of hospitality in tone or manner: "What can we do for you, Mr. Hosford?" The City of Numbered Days 2011-08-31T02:01:25.807Z And had she voluntarily embraced a temporary effacement with him in order to return to the world better equipped for the struggle to impress it with her personality? The Locusts' Years 2011-08-16T02:00:41.777Z This kind of self effacement was attended with such happy consequences that he never failed to adopt it subsequently upon similar occasions. Benjamin Franklin; Self-Revealed, Volume I (of 2) A Biographical and Critical Study Based Mainly on his own Writings 2011-08-16T02:00:37.443Z Observe the �lite, staring into the street, Through that famous elliptical casement; How coldly they eye all the friends who pass by, With a look of self-conscious effacement! The Motley Muse (Rhymes for the Times) 2011-06-29T02:00:30.303Z A star too brilliant for the moon's effacement looked down, while seemingly no erring human judgment could check a heavenly tribute to her sleeping boy. The Higher Court 2011-06-27T02:01:00.213Z That was simply an acknowledgment of her complete effacement of the personal equation. Famous Prima Donnas 2011-05-26T02:00:18.267Z The forgetfulness of a favor, or the effacement of a bond sealed with an obligation, is capable only to weak and cowardly natures. Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z The spread of the worship of Ea, or rather of the religious conceptions with which it was associated, brought with it the effacement of Dam-kina. The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia 2011-04-14T02:00:46.297Z No doubt the overflow of the leading European peoples during the last 400 years has brought about divers dislocations, blurrings, and in places even total effacements of the old landmarks. Man, Past and Present 2011-03-28T02:00:29.283Z The blackened ruins were ploughed and sown as a sort of ceremonial effacement. A Short History of the World 2011-03-04T03:01:03.147Z On this point again there is cause to regret, if not their disappearance, at least their effacement. Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted 2011-02-01T03:00:14.553Z Here were the same sentiments which they themselves felt, the same scruples, the same delicacy, the same effacement of self in the presence of the other's grief. The Golden Triangle The Return of Ars?ne Lupin 2011-01-01T03:00:23.890Z And he had succeeded in this effacement of his life in America; it seemed wiped out of the annals of his memory. Footsteps of Fate 2010-12-20T17:11:56.663Z "I just tried not to throw up on myself -- I get nervous," said Watson with typical down home self effacement. Growing Pains 2010-08-15T04:00:00Z This meant delay, which in its turn rigidly imposed the complete effacement of all traces of the tragedy. Stranded in Arcady Pitt had long believed that the effacement of the Irish Parliament and a legislative union of the two countries was the only solution. A Short History of England, Ireland and Scotland So remote and quiet was this locality that the rumor of the President's effacement had not even reached it. A Republic Without a President and Other Stories Such an effacement would mean a monastic seclusion for the United States. American World Policies The national extinction of Savoy and Piedmont, at least the annexation of Savoy and the effacement of Piedmont, made Xavier de Maistre an exile. A Short History of French Literature From her greeting, as from the blurred effacement of the apparition himself, one divined without trouble the person of that former redoubtable housebreaker: Carron. Where the Pavement Ends In striking contrast to the brutal selfishness of Ab�lard is the noble disinterestedness and complete effacement of self seen in the conduct of H�lo�se. Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) This complete self effacement grated on Bower’s nerves. The Silent Barrier I should conceive these to be the last of their species, for the activity and extent of this effacement of emblems related to Napoleon is past all belief. Before and after Waterloo Letters from Edward Stanley, sometime Bishop of Norwich (1802; 1814; 1816) She was, in her accepted effacement—it was actually her acceptance that made the beauty and repaired the damage—under her aunt's eyes now; but whose eyes were not effectually preoccupied? The Wings of the Dove, Volume II How do we know whether that attitude is an humble effacement, or whether the rank of that martyred ancester exalts her too greatly to allow equality with white stragglers of the range?” The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine The effacement, more or less complete, of the parietal or parieto-occipital sutures in a large number of criminals. A Plea for the Criminal Being a reply to Dr. Chapple's work: 'The Fertility of the Unfit', and an Attempt to explain the leading principles of Criminological and Reformatory Science Her pink and white character had also suffered the effacement of the years. The Belovéd Vagabond I cannot help thinking, too, that a sense of a strong link with a forgotten yesterday would survive the complete effacement of all its details in the form of a wish to return to it. Somehow Good Its blind acceptance seals the resignation of the will and the intellect to effacement and stultification. Liberalism Its appearance did not then signify a sudden advance of the nebula towards condensation, nor was it attended by any visible change in it save the transient effect of partial effacement through superior brightness. A Popular History of Astronomy During the Nineteenth Century Fourth Edition Absolute effacement, the tearing out of my life for ever of what had become the sweetest part of it. The Master Mummer In other words, man, by self-repression and the effacement of every faculty of mind and body, is to attain unto final beatification or emancipation. India, Its Life and Thought It is the effacement of that radical egotism that caused the fall of Adam, in that he dragged down spirituality into corporeality. Hidden Symbolism of Alchemy and the Occult Arts The only alternatives for Japan were war or permanent effacement in Asia. A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era A high price has been paid for this feat of manufacturing a portable literature: no less a price than the effacement from the books of the Bible of their whole literary structure. Select Masterpieces of Biblical Literature The midnight sky would thus experience the effacement of the planets one by one, while the stars would remain unaltered. The Story of the Heavens In return for his personal effacement came moments of supremest joy, when his whole world was aflame with light, and colour, and sound, and his physical body fairly shook with ecstasy. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Paris, unlike London, has never expatiated to the effacement of her distinctive features and the loss of civic consciousness. The Story of Paris The experiment becomes a cause of effacement; the images canceling one another decline to a state of imperceptible tendencies which their likeness and unlikeness prevent from predominating. Essay on the Creative Imagination He even helped towards his own effacement, looking out through the window with— 'The Freddy Tunbridges said they were coming to you this week.' The Convert He could imagine himself, in a like situation, consigning Nick and his conditions to the nether regions; certainly not submitting meekly to a year’s effacement of his personality for the sake of money. Antony Gray,—Gardener We had another schoolmate, this one native to the soil, whose references were with the last vividness local and who was yet to escape with brilliancy in the aftertime the smallest shadow of effacement. A Small Boy and Others She carried into life itself and all its relations her virtue as an artist, that effacement of her observing self in favour of the thing observed. The Creators A Comedy Our object is rather to illustrate the course and development of his distinctive literary qualities, the slow effacement of prejudices which never entirely disappeared, and the rapid expansion of his highest artistic faculties. Studies in Literature and History If I had needed any reassurance that she alone was responsible for Johnny's disappearance, this effacement of the means by which she had accomplished her object would have convinced me. The Other Side of the Door In the century to come we can foresee that this process of effacement of the ancient life will go on with accelerated velocity. Domesticated Animals Their Relation to Man and to his Advancement in Civilization In many of the industries there is practically no difference at all, and the tendency is more and more to effacement of the difference where it exists. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 His effacement left the ministry without a head. The Political History of England - Vol. X. The History of England from the Accession of George III to the close of Pitt's first Administration This railroad sought to efface itself, even as the land sought to aid in its effacement, as though neither believed that this was lawful spot for it. The Wit and Humor of America, Volume VIII (of X) Gaps in our collections are being continually filled up, to the effacement of our dividing lines of demarcation. Evolution, Old & New Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin Agricultural life the real basis of the calendar; gradual effacement of it. The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus His prompt effacement by his victorious ally and natural enemy, the Socialist. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 In some people this negation or effacement of the self is a predominant characteristic. Human Traits and their Social Significance Is there no effacement for the stigma of slavery—no erasement for this blot of shame? Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence The Best Speeches Delivered by the Negro from the days of Slavery to the Present Time Ned knew that the dim object must have been a canoe, but its sudden effacement, and the loud cry for help, were mysteries too deep for immediate comprehension. Canoe Boys and Campfires Adventures on Winding Waters The girls, too, are back, and continual clack Goes on all day long, to home comfort's effacement. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, December 31, 1892 Possibly he may some time be improved otherwise than by effacement, but at present he is still in that early stage of reform that is not incompatible with a mouthful of reformer. The Shadow On The Dial, and Other Essays 1909 Yet, even then, there were protests against this effacement of Christ-tide, and many have been handed down to us, differing naturally very much in style. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide The spiritual domination of the Greek patriarchate had tended more effectually than the temporal power of the Turks to the effacement of Bulgarian nationality. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" No trace of them remains, no fruit, no result, no benefit; they have gone utterly—complete effacement. The Promulgation of Universal Peace As aids to this effacement of the cheapening elements are the very materials of the tales, their characters, now elemental, now other-worldly, and their background of mountains that uplift the spirit, and of menacing sea. Irish Plays and Playwrights Everything is brilliant or dull, radiant or obscure, by an alternative effacement of the colouring principle. Great Pictures, As Seen and Described by Famous Writers This demands the effacement of individuality in a chorus, upon the assertion of which, in a band, under the judicious guidance of the conductor, many of the effects of color and expression depend. How to Listen to Music, 7th ed. Hints and Suggestions to Untaught Lovers of the Art As a great whole, not analyzed to parts, But each part having reference to all— How shall a certain part, pronounced complete, Endure effacement by another part? Men and Women Tom waited breathless for the propitious instant when the tapping of the pipe-men's hammers should drown the noise of a dash for effacement. The Quickening It is not necessary to suppose that this effacement of Desargues's work for two centuries was due to the savage attacks of his critics. An Elementary Course in Synthetic Projective Geometry At the same time the effacement of the Viceroy's Executive Council has weakened that collective authority of the Government of India without which its voice must fail to carry full weight in Whitehall. Indian Unrest And oh! how empty and lonely was now the little cottage, while the swift return to all the ordinary duties of life seemed such a cruel effacement. Winter Evening Tales Philadelphus' narrative meant to her the crumbling of earth and the effacement of Heaven. The City of Delight A Love Drama of the Siege and Fall of Jerusalem The latter flashed a shy, roguish grin at the white men, and then with the customary effacement of Indian women withdrew to the rear of the store. The Luck of the Mounted A Tale of the Royal Northwest Mounted Police The Rishis think that the distinctions between the lower, the middling, and the higher classes of society are eternal, and nothing can be a greater calamity than the effacement of those distinctions. The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Christianity promises an immediate transfer to a life of unalloyed blessedness, and an endless growth of all our powers and capacities; but why should Hinduism urge the cultivation of that whose real destiny is "effacement?" Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891 There is no dimming—no effacement here; Each pulsation keeps the record clear; Warm golden letters all the tablet fill, Nor lose their luster till the heart stands still. Leaves of Life For Daily Inspiration The effect of setting it in speech asked for a complete effacement of Lidgerwood the superintendent, and that was rather difficult. The Taming of Red Butte Western The present marking will last but a short time, and before its effacement occurs suitable and permanent markers should be put up. Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents William McKinley, Messages, Proclamations, and Executive Orders Relating to the Spanish-American War That will bring those 163 old gentlemen to life again and double their remaining term of years to make up for their temporary effacement. Mince Pie The idea of a very fat woman," Sonnini adds, "is nearly always accompanied in Europe by that of softness of flesh, effacement of form, and defect of elasticity in the outlines. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 4 Sexual Selection In Man The agency of their effacement was an endemic disorder known as yellow fever. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce, Volume 1 Same tactics, slightly varied, carried on to effacement of other wing of allied forces. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 101, August 1, 1891 The prospective husband and wife were enjoying their usual state of effacement, but I discovered them finally. A Woman's Impression of the Philippines The new tenants for a night made themselves comfortable, and the virtual effacement of Coulter's battery supplied them with an interesting topic. The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce — Volume 2: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians Can you not understand now why I am come to visit the scene of this tragic effacement of a race of heroes and poets? Back to Methuselah Jimmy followed me into the taxi, and as Selwyn snapped the door he huddled in an opposite corner as if effacement were an obligation required by the situation in which he found himself. People Like That With the kindness of a sister, the girl wife urged me to take their bed; but I assured her that comfort was the least of my concerns, complete effacement being my consuming thought. A Texas Matchmaker Richness and brilliancy of local colour are subordinated, and this time up to the point of effacement, to this luminous monotone, so mysteriously effective in the hands of a master such as Titian. The Later Works of Titian But, by both performance and effacement, she had been not a little bored, having a natural liking for the limelight. Deadham Hard They called him the Great Commoner, the heaven-born statesman; they showered gold boxes upon him; they bore him through the city, the centre of frantic thousands, to the effacement even of the sovereign. The Castle Inn They rolled through a gradual effacement of things, seeing the lights of the farmhouses in the long plain start into existence, and then remain fixed, like gold beetles pinned on a blue curtain. Vain Fortune For the present, Martin's only concern in his son consisted in seeing to it that his effacement was as nearly complete as possible. Dust No mutilation, no gore; just an effacement—prompt and absolute—'there wasn't any.' Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others "I cannot teach her a decent effacement of her personality." A Knight of the Nets Mamma was sitting upright and averted, with an air of self-conscious effacement, holding the thin white book before her like a fan. Mary Olivier: a Life If he hesitates a moment between his attention to his wife and the effacement of his happiness, what shall I tell him to do? Comedy of Marriage and Other Tales To live on is impossible," he thought, "for that would mean the entire effacement of the past. Sanine Only on Murewell Hall would he allow no trespassing, and so long as his son left him undisturbed there, he took his effacement in other quarters with perfect meekness. Robert Elsmere Circumstances had begun the work of Sir Charles's effacement. The Life of the Rt. Hon. Sir Charles W. Dilke, Volume 2 Altogether, his demands upon her were reasonable to the point of self- effacement. The Happy End An impression of passing away, of the effacement of individual life. Memoirs of My Dead Life It does not mean the old-fashioned revolution; it means simply the effacement of all social differences by equal industrial obligations. Roman Holidays, and Others But on Spanish soil it knew no restraint, no limitation but the complete effacement of the Moorish population. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 Miss Lacey was a quiet, rather drab little woman, misleading in her effacement of self. Betty Gordon at Boarding School The Treasure of Indian Chasm Neither Prince Kung nor his colleagues had any intention to pave the way for their own effacement. China And the coloured socks hanging on an iron rod, contributed sombre notes to the livid and vague effacement of the muslin. Theresa Raquin Upon Drew's effacement Gould caused himself to be made president and treasurer of the Erie Railroad, and Fisk vice-president and controller. Great Fortunes from Railroads This railroad sought to efface itself, even as the land sought to aid in its effacement, as though neither believed that this was lawful spot for the path of the iron rails. The Law of the Land He revealed to her the necessity for the effacement of much of her false self and the true spiritualizing of her mind as the only road to wholesome living. Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness And that course Jason Hawn followed with a dignity, reticence, and self- effacement that won the steadily increasing respect of every student and teacher within the college walls. The Heart of the Hills The discipline of a man-of-war prevailed; everything went forward with stereotyped precision and formality; the officers were supposed to comport themselves with impassivity and self- effacement. Love, the Fiddler They wasted every day, every hour; and yet, underneath the one's cold, passionless pursuit of gold, and the other's serene and gentle quest for effacement there was something finer left of other years. The U. P. Trail I felt I was suddenly repudiated by the universe and threatened with effacement, that in some positive and emphatic way I must at once assert myself. In the Days of the Comet The effacement of life was not so marked but that, entering uninformed, he might have supposed her sleeping. Wessex Tales At a conference held in Chicago to effect a union, however, the Union Labor party insisted on the complete effacement of the other ticket and the single taxers refused to submit. The Armies of Labor A chronicle of the organized wage-earners I am old," said Chilo, when they went under the Colonnade; "at times I suffer effacement of memory. Quo Vadis: a narrative of the time of Nero Exactly how this was to be managed, and the manner of Zephas' effacement from the scene, never troubled her childish fancy, and, it is but fair to say, her woman's conscience. Sally Dows My effacement was only temporary, as Siringo appeared at his room shortly afterward. The Outlet The well-fed, much-too-well dressed Baroness stared angrily at the dowdy old woman who had come forth from her usual and seemly position of effacement to speak so disrespectfully. The Toys of Peace, and other papers Could it be possible that under the sting of rejection he had made his grotesque threat of languishing effacement real? Selected Stories of Bret Harte My eyes bear witness that our hearts are in accord; you and we alike are pained at the effacement of Plataeae and Thespiae. Hellenica The deserted house, whose sole illumination was the twilight radiance of the stage, seemed to slumber in melancholy and mysterious effacement. Four Short Stories By Emile Zola |
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