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41international relations — a branch of political science dealing with the relations between nations. [1970 75] * * * Study of the relations of states with each other and with international organizations and certain subnational entities (e.g., bureaucracies and political… …
42literature — /lit euhr euh cheuhr, choor , li treuh /, n. 1. writings in which expression and form, in connection with ideas of permanent and universal interest, are characteristic or essential features, as poetry, novels, history, biography, and essays. 2.… …
43Melville, Herman — orig. Herman Melvill born Aug. 1, 1819, New York, N.Y., U.S. died Sept. 28, 1891, New York City U.S. writer. Born to a wealthy New York family that suffered great financial losses, Melville had little formal schooling and began a period of… …
44English literature — Introduction the body of written works produced in the English language by inhabitants of the British Isles (including Ireland) from the 7th century to the present day. The major literatures written in English outside the British Isles are… …
45Ireland — • Ireland lies in the Atlantic Ocean, west of Great Britain . . . Catholic Encyclopedia. Kevin Knight. 2006. Ireland Ireland † …
46Bruce Castle — Die Südfassade von Bruce Castle Bruce Castle (früher Lordship House) ist ein Herrenhaus in der Lordship Lane in Tottenham, London, aus dem 16. Jahrhundert (andere Quellen gehen vom 15. Jahrhundert aus). Es wurde nach dem Haus Bruce benannt, einer …
47Kierkegaard’s speculative despair — Judith Butler Every movement of infinity is carried out through passion, and no reflection can produce a movement. This is the continual leap in existence that explains the movement, whereas mediation is a chimera, which in Hegel is supposed to… …
48orwéne — adj w.g. 1. not having ground for hope, without hope, hopeless, despairing, despairing of; 2. not giving ground for hope, desparate, despaired of; …
49despondent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. downcast, melancholy, depressed, dejected, disconsolate, wretched; discouraged, dispirited, prostrate, down in the mouth (inf.). See dejection, hopelessness. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. dejected,… …
50forlorn — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. abandoned, deserted, forsaken; hopeless, wretched, miserable. See relinquishment, hopelessness, dejection. II (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. forsaken, desolate, forgotten, miserable; see abandoned 1 . III …
