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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Federico García
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- noun Spanish poet and dramatist who was shot dead by Franco's soldiers soon after the start of the Spanish Civil War (1898-1936)
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Examples
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Perhaps because he resented [Federico García] Lorca's refusal to collaborate with him on a film the previous year, or more probably because he detected Lorca's homosexuality and objected to it, [Luis] Buñuel had come to loathe what he described as Lorca's 'extreme narcissism' and 'terrible aestheticism.'
Great Regulars: Self-described "poet, performer and savant" Tim Key (32)
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Perhaps because he resented [Federico García] Lorca's refusal to collaborate with him on a film the previous year, or more probably because he detected Lorca's homosexuality and objected to it, [Luis] Buñuel had come to loathe what he described as Lorca's 'extreme narcissism' and 'terrible aestheticism.'
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The desk, said to have belonged to the martyred poet Federico Garc í a Lorca, is passed along one by one among Ms. Krauss's characters.
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Jorge Guillén, Pedro Salinas, and others who have written their names in the recent history of Spanish poetry have been his disciples; Federico Garcia Lorca is one of them, and so are the
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And her fiance, Prince Lorca, is a surprisingly strong player who’s made me fonder of him than I want to be.
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“I am called Lorca, second Maj of the Kazon-Ogla.”
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Some reports called Lorca Cohen a surrogate, but Wainwright's website announcement referred to "proud parents Lorca Cohen, Rufus Wainwright and Deputy Dad Jorn Weisbrodt".
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Well, that might be a bit alarmist but I wonder just how much the name "Lorca" actually means to the man on the Clapham omnibus.
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Well, that might be a bit alarmist but I wonder just how much the name "Lorca" actually means to the man on the Clapham omnibus.
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Thus he asserts that "'Lorca' is a complex author-function", whose "own vision of the gypsies is already that of an orientalist".
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