constellate


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scatter or intersperse like dots or studs

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form a constellation or cluster

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My key argument is that the particular Passion narrative selected by Gibson interpolates its audience so as to constellate a militarized, masculinized form of Christianity that presumes, indeed depends upon, the socially authorized suffering of obedient (read "soldierly") sons.
A certain number of women constellate around him while a collection of aspirants poke their heads through the crowd in such fervent hope of getting some attention that it looks like some kind of undignified game of Whack-A-Mole.
Contemporary information's capacity for global circulation--its ability to constellate and engage multiple new communities of interpretation, as well as of production and reception--is perhaps the most crucial and dramatic result of its digitization.
Such judgments will be shown to constellate around cognitive exploration based on factors that are key conditions of objective knowledge, and of the unity of the self (4).
How do generational cohorts align (or not) as they clash, coordinate, collaborate, and constellate? What differentiates those born before World War II from the boomers, Gen X,and the millennials?
I understand this quite literally for the artists included seem to constellate around Spiderwoman Theatre in New York (Miguel, Borst, Mohica, Turtle Gals); the Centre for Indigenous Theatre, founded by Favel (Toronto); and Native Earth Performing Arts (Toronto), with which a number of the playwrights have been associated (Moses, Highway, Taylor, Nolan, Mohica, Dandurand).
Indisposing hurry, how you'd constellate, how you'd discombobulate;
These chapters signal her interest in spatial tropes and concepts: the Introduction is titled 'Crossing Borders: From Private Dialogue to Public Debate' while Gray's 'Conclusions' are pivoted on 'Scattering and Gathering in Katharine Evans and Sarah Cheevers' The last chapter accomplishes the signal feat of introducing fresh material--a travel narrative of two Quaker women--to constellate the book's critical arguments, producing a feeling of simultaneous arrival and departure.
What is striking in reading this book is how many of the ordinary dilemmas of therapy constellate and are magnified in those situations at the edge of life and death.
Three long, sectioned sequences anchor the book, but each poem has the feel of a wunderkammer as "the mind flits, imbibes" among sometimes dizzying catalogs of tactile and theoretical, philosophical and quotidian, personal and historical details: As bits of consciousnesses constellate, I rouse to a 3 A.M.
Poems, novels, sagas, myths, histories: they constellate a new associational universe that transforms him, conjuring a new critical subjectivity; he "felt odd making a contestatory statement about his world; til now it had never occurred to him he had one" (45).
In his "Theses on the Philosophy of History," Walter Benjamin enjoined Marxist critics to "constellate" rather than "tell" history, by bringing a threatened past into a meaningful relation with an equally endangered present (Thesis XVIIIA).
And were she to constellate this piece of architecture onto the heavens, she'd see how he, Sylvanus Now, formed the swan in the Milky Way.
All these constellate in heterogeneous rhythms and tempos; they articulate in heterogeneous vocabularies and grammars.