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- noun Plural form of
disjunction .
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(V) can be analysed as a (reasonably finite) string of disjunctions, that is (V) = [“there will be one guest tonight” or “there will be two guests tonight” or ¦ “there will be
Semantic Conceptions of Information Floridi, Luciano 2005
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Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011
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True also that the price is now being paid, not only in Greece and Italy but in France and Germany too, for failing to confront these disjunctions two decades ago.
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All this gives the play an extraordinary fluidity and a sense of our unending hunger for contact: what it underestimates is Pinter's violent disjunctions of tone and his gift for comic riffs as in Ralph's dismissal of cognitive thought as "like farting Annie Laurie down a keyhole".
Review | Theatre | Moonlight | Donmar Warehouse | Michael Billington 2011
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This might seem the recipe for a host of disjunctions and irritations, but Eric Larrabee manages it flawlessly.
Essential Reading On World War II Richard Snow 2011
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Armantrout's short lines, use of rhetoric, aggressive lineation, disjunctions and juxtapositions, discursiveness, parataxis, and myriad condensatory techniques are all exemplary, but never overbearing.
Seth Abramson: November 2011 Contemporary Poetry Reviews Seth Abramson 2011
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How a reader responds to this letter is, I suspect, a fair predictor of how capable he or she might be of tolerating the extreme disjunctions that predominate in the life and art of its author.
Can Celine's Anti-Semitism Be Denied After Reading His Graphic Anti-Semitic Descriptions? 2010
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How a reader responds to this letter is, I suspect, a fair predictor of how capable he or she might be of tolerating the extreme disjunctions that predominate in the life and art of its author.
Can Celine's Anti-Semitism Be Denied After Reading His Graphic Anti-Semitic Descriptions? 2010
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Oedipus says to us: either you will internalize the differential functions that rule over the exclusive disjunctions, and thereby "resolve"
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This was a monumental performance in every sense, big on beauty and warmth and with the strange disjunctions of the music embraced rather than softened.
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