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irruption

[i′rəp·shən]
(geology)
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Scientific & Technical Terms, 6E, Copyright © 2003 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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If the Christian God is truly one whose extravagant love cannot be anticipated but irrupts unexpectedly in our world; if we can know that God in our interaction with God's creatures and creation; if the God who is revealed in creation is, nevertheless, always revealed as Mystery; then the privileged social location for encountering and coming to know God is in those places and among those persons who themselves irrupt unexpectedly in our world, who themselves are anomalies in world that worships power, wealth, privilege, and security.
Lippo's painting may be as spirited as his blank verse, but it still cannot compete with the stornelli--the snatches of popular rhyme--that irrupt into his workshop and into his monologue.
From this arrogant perception that was far away from the reality, some foreign elements were able to irrupt into the body of the Romanian empire and its economic texture, while aristocrats tried to address this issue through some codes so as to make the await toward gaining much more of wide lands.(Moss:1967)
But there is no doubt that Coover in Gerald's Party extends this inherent ambiguity of the parenthesis to a dizzying extent,u Often these parentheses are not even semantically, let alone syntactically, suited to the passages they irrupt into.
Nothing can irrupt from the past into the present as its former self since all forms of survival require that an entity fits into its new context, and continues to change with as it changes that environment.
Toufic argues that in the threat of a radical closure of memory, characters more accurately "irrupt" inside the images even while remaining withdrawn (69).
Longing, or desire, is the force that causes the past to irrupt constantly into the present.
'Outcroppings' are shown to irrupt in social settings and in the workplace and to cause Protestant alienation.
For instance, in the "Cyclops" episode of Ulysses the gigantic catalogues that irrupt into the narrative no longer fulfil any principles of systematic relevance, and instead include arbitrary and disconnected series.
Most people visiting Clinicum have an assigned place but s/he can also irrupt into the lives of those they encounter, especially when their narratives disrupt tellings and questionings legitimated within the culture.
To use Cathy Caruth's argument, Clare's encounters with her traumatic past lead to the realization that "history is no longer referential (that is, no longer based on simple models of experience and reference)." (14) Clare-the-young-adult in No Telephone to Heaven, sequel to Abeng, will eventually consciously participate in the progressive deconstruction of patriarchal/colonial systems of reference in order for the not-known and not-said to irrupt out of the disquieted volcano of the past.
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