He was there by virtue of the French presence on the South American continent in the Overseas Department of Guyane, which is normally held at arm's length as a colonial
excrescence by the independent countries of the region, but there is currently a political love-in between Sarkozy and President Lula of Brazil.
The fact that its unity was "negative" did not make it any less strong or cohesive: for there was total agreement on rolling back this collective
excrescence and on restoring the Old Republic, the true America.
How long do you suppose the Americans would tolerate that
excrescence on the west coast?
He even went so far as to claim that 'paintings are the ashes of my art', implying that the physical manifestation of his work was an irrelevant
excrescence.
WILLIEWAUGHT (will-e-wawt) Chaucer's ribald term for a small hard
excrescence on the male member [a deep draught of drink in Scotland]
Starting from an obvious
excrescence in the transmitted text of Simplicius's treatment of the foundations of pre-Socratic atomism near the beginning of his Physics commentary, this paper excavates a Theophrastean correction to Aristotle's tendency to lump Leucippus and Democritus together: Theophrastus made application of the [TEXT NOT REPRODUCIBLE IN ASCII] principle in the sphere of ontology an innovation by Democritus.
The element of the grotesque, for example, is not to be found in the poet's text: it is an
excrescence, put there to imitate The Merry.
The totalitarian "isms" were millennial movements that replaced God with the doctrine of scientism--an "
excrescence on the body of science" whose origins Todorov traces to Rene Descartes (1596-1650).
In fact, the most interesting chapters, such as those on colonial architecture or on the Japanese attempt to cultivate a Japanese style brush painting, "Toyoga," as the proper "modern art" for Taiwan and then the Nationalist Government's attempts to extirpate this "foreign"
excrescence, deals explicitly with a Taiwanese struggle against old and new colonial regimes.
No l onger just a bit of a larger whole, but the very part that actually allots or part-itions a generality, thereby effectively deconstructing its normative workings, the flower holds or harbours in itself "the force of a transcendental
excrescence" (15).
"A burl is an abnormal, wart-like
excrescence on the trunk or branches of a tree," Constantine writes.
The labs are also the primary dumping ground for the Navy's nuclear
excrescence. The Navy is scheduled to transport more than 1,100 shipments of extremely radioactive waste, composed of spent fuel rods from the Navy's nuclear submarines and aircraft carriers.
It is a vestigal
excrescence on the face of our Constitution.
It is an unsightly and unhealthy
excrescence, deforming the symmetry of the body of the law .
