单词 | seamless web |
释义 | > as lemmasseamless web 2. figurative, spec. as seamless web, originally with reference to the concept of history as an integral whole (see quot. 1898). ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [noun] > as an integrated whole seamless web1898 1862 E. Dickinson Poems (1955) I. 246 As if some Caravan of Sound Had parted Rank, Then knit, and swept—In Seamless Company. 1898 F. Pollock & F. W. Maitland Hist. Eng. Law (ed. 2) I. i. i. 1 Such is the unity of all history that any one who endeavours to tell a piece of it must feel that his first sentence tears a seamless web. 1929 Oxf. Poetry 12 A small patch of light on the seamless blank. 1951 W. H. Auden Nones (1952) 39 The three wise Maries come Sossing through seamless waters. 1964 D. G. MacRae in J. H. Plumb Crisis in Humanities 127 By ‘integralism’ is meant a set of beliefs that involve one in claiming that social structures form a ‘seamless web’ in which every institution and social position is linked to every other and is part of a unique, interconnected configuration. 1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. iii. 94 The Prelude is formally fissured by its ideological contradictions, unable to rise to the seamless impersonal epic it would wish itself to be. 1977 Time 10 Oct. 10/3 ‘Many of us find it intellectually difficult’, he said, ‘to penetrate the seamless web of the Japanese politico-economic system.’ < as lemmas |
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