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- noun Plural form of
parallelism .
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Examples
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Scott is much given to the use of Elizabethan words and constructions, and I have quoted many "parallelisms" from Shakespeare and his contemporaries.
The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott 1801
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Meyers is a looser writer than Ephron, whose scripts advance in such nifty parallelisms, one imagines her plotting them with a pair of calipers.
Double-X Films 2009
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Meyers is a looser writer than Ephron, whose scripts advance in such nifty parallelisms, one imagines her plotting them with a pair of calipers.
Double-X Films 2009
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Meyers is a looser writer than Ephron, whose scripts advance in such nifty parallelisms, one imagines her plotting them with a pair of calipers.
Double-X Films 2009
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He currently has an article pending publication that is an analysis of parallelisms in short stories of Jack London and Robert Louis Stevenson.
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Meyers is a looser writer than Ephron, whose scripts advance in such nifty parallelisms, one imagines her plotting them with a pair of calipers.
Double-X Films 2009
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Lest that be insufficiently diagnostic, the point is emphasized in a pair of parallelisms.
'Thor': A Vehicle of Low Norsepower Joe Morgenstern 2011
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Meyers is a looser writer than Ephron, whose scripts advance in such nifty parallelisms, one imagines her plotting them with a pair of calipers.
Double-X Films 2009
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Meyers is a looser writer than Ephron, whose scripts advance in such nifty parallelisms, one imagines her plotting them with a pair of calipers.
Double-X Films 2009
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In his experience, orchestral works by composers of Chinese or Japanese origin just featured a lot of "the stereotypical sounds of that region," such as a pentatonic melody with a parallel harmony in fifths classical European music favors parallelisms in thirds or sixths or the insertion of gongs or bamboo flutes.
O for a Thousand Pipes to Sing Lee Lawrence 2011
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