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- Dictionaryodious/ˈəʊdɪəs/
adjective
- 1. extremely unpleasant; repulsive: "a pretty odious character"
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Jul 24, 2024 · The meaning of AWFUL is extremely disagreeable or objectionable. How to use awful in a sentence. Using Awful as an Adjective and Adverb: Usage Guide
Jul 23, 2024 · Prior to 2022, I’d had the crippling depression which kept me inert so in that regard, I knew what lack of motivation was. Still, I didn’t understand how something could seem so huge or odious that I could not bear to do it.
5 days ago · I. The Latest Form of Jew-Baiting. For decades a bogus accusation of antisemitism was tolerated by too many people as the two-bit rhetorical ruse of pro-Zionists to shield their nationalist project from scrutiny by Arab and especially Palestinian anti-colonial challengers in the Middle East.
Jul 22, 2024 · f any particular end are daunting, difficult and never quite wholesomely satisfying, however necessary. As a member, past and present, of various societies, professional groups and institutional affiliations, I have marvelled at how individual agendas push up against a group objective, sometimes to subvert it.
Jul 22, 2024 · This post is a part of the 2023 Selected Papers of the Consortium on the Revolutionary Era, which were edited and compiled by members of the CRE’s board alongside editors at Age of Revolutions. By Rosamond Hooper-Hamersley. It is a privilege and a joy to write on behalf of Susan Conner’s fine work as an historian. I am grateful to contribute to this session that considers the impact of ...
6 days ago · The word "logic" originates from the Greek word "logos", which has a variety of translations, such as reason, discourse, or language. Logic is traditionally defined as the study of the laws of thought or correct reasoning, and is usually understood in terms of inferences or arguments.Reasoning is the activity of drawing inferences.
5 days ago · Clockwise from upper left: an 1887 self-portrait by Vincent van Gogh; a female ancestor figure by a Chokwe artist; detail from The Birth of Venus (c. 1484 –1486) by Sandro Botticelli; and an Okinawan Shisa lion. Art is a diverse range of human activity and its resulting product that involves creative or imaginative talent generally expressive of technical proficiency, beauty, emotional power ...
Jul 22, 2024 · Legal scholar Maneesha Deckha argues for a new legal category of “beingness” for animals that transcends the inadequate legal categories of “persons” or “property,” while also highlighting why a critique of human exceptionalism is essential to advancing the goals of anti-racism and decolonization.
Jul 22, 2024 · In this philosophical-theoretical study of Lev Tolstoy’s pedagogical legacy of his Yasnaya Polyana school in the Russian Empire (1859–1862), I raised three major questions: (1) was Lev Tolstoy a democratic educator, and if so, why can one claim that, (2) if so, what kind of a democratic educator was he, and (3) what kind of limitations to his democratic education have I observe and what ...
5 days ago · Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique to train attention and awareness and detach from reflexive, "discursive thinking," achieving a mentally clear and emotionally calm and stable state, while not judging the meditation process itself.. Techniques are broadly classified into focused (or concentrative) and open monitoring methods.
