That way lies the verbal Fall from the Edenic language, Babel, logophobia and the desire for redemptive language schemes. |
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Writers who refused to change, such as Babel and Pilnyak, were executed or died in labour camps. |
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The illusion of easy communication disintegrates, the curse of Babel reasserts itself, English collapses into translationese. |
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What hope is there for the general, curious reader when the cognoscenti are inhabitants of this Babel? |
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Up to the time of the tower of Babel and the call of Abram from Ur of the Chaldees, there were just nations, or Gentiles as later called. |
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The Tower of Babel, the great ziggurat beside Babylon's temple of Marduk, dates to this era. |
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It is a port built on successive waves of immigration from a Babel of nations. |
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However, within the context of the Biblical record of human history, this individual is likely to post-date the dispersion from Babel. |
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The congress is the industry's very own Tower of Babel and more than 50,000 joined in the techno-speak gabfest this year. |
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Babel and Sodom are places where human beings seek false autonomy, turning their backs on the Source of their existence. |
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This graphic Babel gives us signs and symbols abstracted from their contexts of employment and isolated from their customary supports. |
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Together, we can build a Canada whose two main language communities can communicate effortlessly across what was once a brick wall of Babel. |
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This fourth collaboration between Theatre Babel and Liz Lochhead is an electrifying and ribald adaptation of Moliere's best plays. |
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Madam President, this Parliament is like the Tower of Babel, an allegory of the Habsburg Empire, which was full of sycophants. |
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It is a city that comes down from heaven, unlike Babel, the city that rose from earth towards heaven. |
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Further to the south, the majority of significant attacks occurred around Hillah in northern Babel Province. |
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More than twenty years ago I translated the stories of Isaak Babel together with Reinhard Federmann, a friend of mine who died at an early age. |
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Graybill argues that the Tower of Babel presents an alternative to what she calls the Sinaitic model of understanding language, law, and interpretation. |
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He burst clear of two defenders and threaded a neat pass to front man Ryan Babel, who flicked the ball on for the onrushing Ibrahim Afellay. |
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There it tosses in ready-made machines shaking and undermining the old economic base and erects upon its splinters the Tower of Babel of a capitalist economy. |
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I can see that a Tower of Babel situation is developing here. |
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In short, we are not prepared to go back to Babel. |
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Ormuz was said to be a Babel for its confusion of tongues, and for its moral abominations to match the cities of the Plain. |
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Just as Kandinsky's Compositions punctuate the successive phases of his career as a painter, except that the Babel paintings are themselves part of a more or less extensive series of works in their own right. |
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It's taken a starring role in Gladiator, Rules of Engagement, Alexander and Babel The kasbahs, Berber villages and otherworldly sandscapes are the key draw. |
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In the early 1990s, when our Babel nation seemed briefly endangered by English-only advocates, I considered doing my part for polyglotism and improving my rudimentary French or German. |
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A language sweet to the ears and hearts of humanity, which will go along toppling stone by stone the tower of Babel which has been built up in their hearts. |
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It will be a tower of Babel where everyone speaks a different language. |
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The critical apparatus he erects approaches the shaky heights of Babel, yet the wealth and profusion of detail within it would purblind Larkin's own shivering sizar. |
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We stopped at Timinagout kasbah, my girlfriend delighting in the fact that some scenes from Babel were filmed there, and she was standing where Brad Pitt had been just a few months before. |
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Jorge Borges referred to libraries as Towers of Babel and labyrinths. |
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What became of Nimrod and his tower of Babel? |
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Historical linguistics thoroughly rejects the idea of a single original language, certainly at least not before 10,000 BC, well before the existence of Babylon where the tale of Babel is set. |
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Ancient Babel condemned you to this division of the peoples and races, but the construction of my spiritual temple in the hearts of humanity shall free you from that restitution and bring you to love one another truly. |
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This should prevent us from trying to be like God, for when we have behaved like the builders of Babel it has always caused much ruin and great devastation. |
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Many small studios design and produce goods and brands specifically for small, but dynamic scenes, giving rise to a delightful Babel of colours and shapes. |
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That will put an end to the current Tower of Babel in financial reporting, improve competition and transparency and make the free movement of capital much easier. |
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Our scientist-kings and our brave new age of biotechnology are the latest in giant steps that will take this Babel drive to a new level. |
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Everything was a labyrinthine amalgam of languages, a towering Babel of puns and glossolalia. |
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Voronin and Babel might be dead losses but they're surely more use than Fowler. |
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Among the gifted youngsters vying for a place in coach Foppe de Haan's line-up are Liverpool wide man Ryan Babel, Real Madrid utility player Royston Drenthe and Valencia's Hedwiges Maduro. |
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It is necessary to know that these know-it-ails of the tower of Babel, will be fulminated with the terrible ray of cosmic justice and will perish in the ninth Dantes circle. |
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Roy Hodgson will offer Dortmund Anfield benchwarmers Ryan Babel or Milan Jovanovic plus a cash adjustment in a January. |
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After the great catastrophe that is near, the intellectual rascals of the tower of Babel will enter the infernal worlds to be reduced to cosmic dust in the ninth sphere. |
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Bring a picnic or descend the wobbly gangplank and the sluggish lift to access the coruscating Babel of global resto-brands that is the Southbank. |
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In Babel Tower, Byatt implicitly questions Bull's overpainting and Frederica's verbal laminations, juxtaposing and comparing their semiotic strategies. |
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If there is any analogy for our predicament, it is the story of the Tower of Babel, but of course the analogy is not understood outside the dwindling Judeo-Christian remnant. |
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Though the Liars' cuts are supremely inaccessible, moody pieces, their chaotic, indecipherable babel plays against Oneida's monolithic tower. |
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Her reverie was broken by a babel of voices, the approach of running feet, and suddenly her vision was filled with Theo's aghast features. |
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With songs in Spanish, English, Mayan, and Zapotec, it reflects the babel of voices that is our ever-expanding border region. |
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If we turn to various explanations of how these incidents come about and how to prevent them, we face a babel of opinions. |
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The fair was like the crazy opposite of the academy, turning its demonstrations and its messages into a chaotic babel. |
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And yet he has been rejected by a polyglot babel of 25 countries, and the will of the people of Italy has been frustrated. |
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What is left is a babel of talk, of contrasting idiolects delineating the diverse characters, again well illustrated by Miola. |
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Worse, the babel of messages from amateurs produced conflicting news about whether the ship was safe. |
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Out of the babel of writers' voices offering their services, one dominated, that of Peter Nichols. |
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Scottish accents could still be heard amid the Australian babel, but the immigrants were far outnumbered by the Australian-born claiming Scots origin. |
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Each of them a million cities, a babel of troubles, secrets, losses. |
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This man's message is this, that amidst the babel of voices in our world, there is another word-and the essence of wisdom is to listen to this word. |
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Larva echoes this multiplicity of tongues, a babel of aliens. |
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The myriad disjunctions that fractionalize and disunite cultural discourse in our period made all our forums a scene of babel. |
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So great was the conflux of torches, the flash and gleam of weapons, and the babel of sounds that it wrought on the mind the impression of a fire blazing up in the night. |
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