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Astrology of or relating to four of the signs of the zodiac, Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, and Pisces, which are associated with the quality of adaptability
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This last prose work, together with The Anniversaries, reveals his preoccupation with the themes of mutability and death, and of the paradoxical human union of spirit and matter, themes which are crucial even in the love poems.
How to sort through its stylistic shifts, its post-medium-specific mutability, its disorienting variousness?
He covers sanctuaries in 19th-century American and European literature, "Rip Van Winkle", "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and sanctuaries in "The Mutability of Literature" and other essays.
This edited volume provides an overview of recent work in human geography utilizing non-representational theories, which build on social constructivism's insights concerning the importance of representation, the mutability of the social order, and the connections between signification and extra-linguistic forces, but places far greater emphasis on relational phenomena.
Heyworth's diachronic study envisages mutability of form as an all-pervasive process in the output of the magister amoris and confidently traces its uncanny influence.
Writer-director Wes Anderson continues his fascination with the mutability of human relationships.
Fascinated with the mutability of human relationships, he has a talent for portraying eccentric geniuses and dysfunctional families.
In the final section, "The Rest of Love," Phillips is consistent, unvarying in his stride; and it's about love's manifestation and mutability, which (as has been said) "leads him to create beguiling images of vulnerability" (Newsday).
In Romanticism the perception of our fragile mutability heightened a sense of Nature's stable, unchanging constitution.
The mutability of the self or its "metamorphosis," arousing tremendous curiosity, might have been the cause for the interest in Ovid's work.
Second, although Ruff notes the inherent mutability of violence's definition, he sometimes seems to describe it as something concrete and quantifiable.
The Lettre sees him question this construction, while Le Reve goes further, rejecting the stability of the universe to underline instead the 'dynamic mutability of all life forms' (p.
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