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concerned with beauty or the appreciation of beauty
the approach to art exemplified by (but not restricted to) the Aesthetic Movement. |
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| representing the most perfect or typical example of a quality or class |
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| A literary term in which a character or narrator gives a speech to an inanimate object, or where someone talks to something unliving as if it were living. |
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well meaning and kindly: a ______ smile.
(of an organization) serving a charitable rather than a profit-making purpose: a ______ fund. |
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someone who behaves in a superior manner
arrogantly superior and disdainful |
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| showing contempt or lack of respect: |
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-form a connecting link between
- intervene between people in a dispute in order to bring about an agreement or reconciliation
-bring about (a result such as a physiological effect): "the right hemisphere plays an important role in ________ing tactile perception of direction"
a person who attempts to make people involved in a conflict come to an agreement |
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| the theory of knowledge, esp. with regard to its methods, validity, and scope. ______________ is the investigation of what distinguishes justified belief from opinion. |
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| a late-20th-century style and concept in the arts, architecture, and criticism that represents a departure from modernism and has at its heart a general distrust of grand theories and ideologies as well as a problematical relationship with any notion of “art.” |
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a literary style in which a character's thoughts, feelings, and reactions are depicted in a continuous flow uninterrupted by objective description or conventional dialogue. James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, and Marcel Proust are among its notable early exponents.
A person's thoughts and conscious reactions to events, perceived as a continuous flow. |
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a drinking party or convivial discussion, esp. as held in ancient Greece after a banquet
a conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject. |
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| a person who takes part in a dialogue or conversation. |
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| behavior showing high moral standards |
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