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!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English

!Mira que luna! Look at that moon! Resources for learning English
Fernando Olivera: El rapto.- TEXT FROM THE NOVEL The goldfinch by Donna Tartt (...) One night we were in San Antonio, and I was having a bit of a melt-down, wanting my own room, you know, my dog, my own bed, and Daddy lifted me up on the fairgrounds and told me to look at the moon. When "you feel homesick", he said, just look up. Because the moon is the same wherever you go". So after he died, and I had to go to Aunt Bess -I mean, even now, in the city, when I see a full moon, it's like he's telling me not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am. She kissed me on the nose. Or where you are, puppy. The center of my earth is you". The goldfinch Donna Tartt 4441 English edition

Thursday, April 14, 2011

Word well used. Sturm and Drang. 14-04-2011.


"Sturm und Drang"


From:

An opinion piece about "Remembering Martin Luther King as a man, not a saint"

The Use:

"Hollywood, uncertain how to deal with a saint, has only recently begun to grapple with the sturm und drang of his life story." – Hampton Sides, Washington Post, April 3, 2011

About the Word:

Sturm und drang translates literally as "storm and stress." It was originally the title of a German play in the 1700s.
In English, as used here, it has come to mean "turmoil" – on an epic scale.


turmoil      
     turmoil   turmoils  
Turmoil is a state of confusion, disorder, uncertainty, or great anxiety.
   ...the political turmoil of 1989...
   Her marriage was in turmoil.
   Your mind is in such a turmoil you do not know what you are saying.
N-VAR: usu with supp, oft in N  

(c) Collins Dictionary.


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