April 23, 2006
Word of the Week for April 23, 2006
amalgam \uh-MAL-guhm\, noun:
1. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; used
especially (with silver) as a dental filling.
2. A mixture or compound of different things.
In that year, Zola struck back at the novelist and critic
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, that curious amalgam of religious
conservative and blasphemous melodramatist -- Zola called
him a"hysterical Catholic" -- whom he had long detested for
his superior bearing and his unfortunate sallies against
writers Zola admired.
-- Gary B. Nash, [1]History on Trial
The so-called "protest" literature of the thirties was
often an amalgam of the private rebellion of youth with
social revolt.
-- Nona Balakian, [2]The World of William Saroyan
The governing body of college athletics is gradually
extruding a regulatory text that reads like some crazed
amalgam of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and the
Uniform Commercial Code.
-- Paul F. Campos, [3]Jurismania
Her vocabulary was an amalgam of slang, especially the
show-business jargon of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, and a
requisite amount of cultivated English.
-- James A. Drake, [4]Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography
amalgam \uh-MAL-guhm\, noun:
1. An alloy of mercury with another metal or metals; used
especially (with silver) as a dental filling.
2. A mixture or compound of different things.
In that year, Zola struck back at the novelist and critic
Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, that curious amalgam of religious
conservative and blasphemous melodramatist -- Zola called
him a"hysterical Catholic" -- whom he had long detested for
his superior bearing and his unfortunate sallies against
writers Zola admired.
-- Gary B. Nash, [1]History on Trial
The so-called "protest" literature of the thirties was
often an amalgam of the private rebellion of youth with
social revolt.
-- Nona Balakian, [2]The World of William Saroyan
The governing body of college athletics is gradually
extruding a regulatory text that reads like some crazed
amalgam of the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus and the
Uniform Commercial Code.
-- Paul F. Campos, [3]Jurismania
Her vocabulary was an amalgam of slang, especially the
show-business jargon of Broadway and Tin Pan Alley, and a
requisite amount of cultivated English.
-- James A. Drake, [4]Rosa Ponselle: A Centenary Biography