Definitions
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- adjective Suggestive of Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) or his writings.
Etymologies
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Examples
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In these stories London asserts the Kiplingesque myth of the superior White Race, but he also adapts it to a naturalistic framework.
“The Kipling of the Klondike”: Naturalism in London's Early Fiction
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Needless to say, Brooke finds Nell cute when she's angry, and he becomes jealous of the attentions she's paid by a fine working-class lad named, with Kiplingesque inevitability, Tommy.
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London revives a favored theme: the Kiplingesque conflict ...
“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.”
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In "Where the Trail Forks" (Outing, December, 1900), London revives a favored theme: the Kiplingesque conflict between between Anglo-Saxon mores and Indian religions and folkways.
“Why this longing for life? It is a game which no man wins.”
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To call them Kiplingesque would be to cheapen them; they were practically out of the Iliad.
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To call them Kiplingesque would be to cheapen them; they were practically out of the Iliad.
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In our Kiplingesque way, we are left behind to mutter: "This isn't fair dealing".
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In our Kiplingesque way, we are left behind to mutter: "This isn't fair dealing".
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It also provides a convenient outlet for bigoted animus – where once denigrating Muslims or advocating invading “pagan” countries at will smacked uncomfortably of racism, religious bigotry, and a Kiplingesque lack of modernity, today you can be out and proud in your hatred of brown-skinned non-Christians as a political stance favoring tolerance, freedom, and progressive values of the kind harbored by David Horowitz, Michelle Malkin, and the Young America Foundation.
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In London in 1998, at the decennial meeting of Anglican primates, the mostly liberal American bishops arrived in a Kiplingesque mood, eager to tutor the "lesser breeds without the law" in advanced thinking about sexuality.
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