| 释义 |
‖ voulu, a. (n.)|vuly|
[Fr., pa. pple. of vouloir to wish, want.]
Contrived, deliberate, studied. Also as n. (esp. collect.).
1909E. Nesbit Daphne in Fitzroy St. xiii. 207 Perhaps there's something more delicate, less voulu, in our little dinner as it is. The poignant beauty of the incomplete. 1938E. Bowen Death of Heart iii. iv. 389 There is a narrowness about fantasy: it figures only the voulu part of the self. 1948F. R. Leavis Great Tradition ii. 81 There is certainly something of that quality [sc. insincerity] in Daniel Deronda..an element of the tacitly voulu. 1957L. Durrell Justine ii. 132 The idea is not spontaneous, but voulue. 1959Encounter Dec. 64/1 All de Sade's excesses were ‘voulus’. They were a scientific investigation into sex. 1962Listener 17 May 885/3 Here and there the impression of the voulu and the freakish cannot be avoided. 1968Punch 3 Apr. 507/1 They simply give an impression of voulu oddity, nearer to a harsher, more explicitly sexual A. E. Coppard than to Carson McCullers. 1974Times 2 Feb. 7/6 But her knowledge of people as such? Sometimes profound, sometimes voulu. |