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emblem an allegorical picture containing a moral lesson, often with an explanatory motto or verses, esp one printed in an emblem book How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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And his goofy relatives, who include Shohreh Aghdashloo as his loving, materialistic aunt, and Tony Yalda as his drama-queen cousin, come off as its most emblematically typical American family. Intellectual historians (Matsuda; Kern; Hutton; Terdiman) characterize this period emblematically in terms of its memory crisis and see writers of the time as appropriately preoccupied with historicity. Deliberately using them for a contrastive study of Dutch mentalite, Brita Rang analyzes emblematically coded secrets in the first half of the eighteenth century and what she calls "enlightened secrets" in the second half of that century. |
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