volubility
21voluble — adjective Etymology: Middle English, from Latin volubilis, from volvere to roll; akin to Old English wealwian to roll, Greek eilyein to roll, wrap Date: 15th century 1. easily rolling or turning ; rotating 2. characterized by ready or rapid… …
22Maria Callas — Callas redirects here. For other uses, see Callas (disambiguation). Maria Callas Maria Callas (Greek: Μαρία Κάλλας) (December 2, 1923 – September 16, 1977) was an American born Greek soprano and one of the most renowned opera singers of the… …
23Shtetl — A shtetl (Yiddish: שטעטל, diminutive form of Yiddish shtot שטאָט, town , pronounced very similarly to the South German diminutive Städtle , little town ; cf. Middle High German: stetelîn, stetlîn, stetel) was typically a small town with a large… …
24Christopher Blair — Wing Commander character|if=|Title = Christopher Blair bgcolor = #ccccff Title = Christopher Blair (DECEASED) Caption = Mark Hamill as Christopher Blair in (1995) Rank = Commodore Callsign = Maverick Race = Human Gender = Male Birth = 2630.168… …
25Irish bull — An Irish bull is a ludicrous, incongruent or logically absurd statement, generally unrecognized as such by its author. Irish bull originated in this use because such expressions often fall between two different statements, as between the horns of …
26Mihail Sadoveanu — Sadoveanu redirects here. For other persons of the same name, see Sadoveanu (surname). Mihail Sadoveanu Sadoveanu in 1929, portrait by Ştefan Dimitrescu Born November 5, 1880( …
27Ion Creangă — Creangă redirects here. For other uses, see Creangă (surname). Ion Creangă Nică al lui Ştefan a Petrei Ion Torcălău Ioan Ştefănescu Born 1837 or 1839 Târgu Neamţ Died …
28Parataxis — (from Greek for act of placing side by side ; fr. para , beside + tassein , to arrange; contrasted to syntaxis) is a literary technique, in writing or speaking, that favors short, simple sentences, often without the use of conjunctions. It is a… …
29Jerry Saltz — (b. February 19, 1951) is an American art critic. Since 2006, he has been senior art critic and a columnist for New York magazine. Formerly the senior art critic for The Village Voice, Saltz has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Criticism… …
30Death in Venice (opera) — This article is about the Britten opera. For the underlying novel by Thomas Mann, see Death in Venice. For other uses, see Death in Venice (disambiguation). Benjamin Britten …
