| 单词 | tendency drama |
| 释义 | > as lemmastendency drama attributive and in other combinations. tendency drama, tendency novel, tendency story, one composed with an unexpressed but definite purpose [after German tendenz-drama, -roman, etc.] ; tendency wit [after German tendenzwitz] . ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > moral or didactic moralc1390 virtuousc1405 didactic1658 tendency1838 tendential1889 tendentious1900 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > types of narrative or story generally > [adjective] > other specific attributes formal1592 tendency1838 unartistic1854 happy ever afterwards1858 ben trovato1883 middle-length1928 hard-boiled1929 stream of consciousness1931 plutographic1985 1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 23 They may all be referred either to that [assertion] just made, or to a tendency argument of the same character. 1889 J. Jacobs Fables of Æsop 206 The Fable..is a Moral Tendency-Beast-Droll. 1909 Cent. Dict. Suppl. Tendency theory..the theory of the Tübingen school that the books of the New Testament..were put together for the purpose of upholding current opinions, and that they thus have a ‘tendency’. 1916 A. A. Brill tr. S. Freud Wit & its Relation to Unconsc. iii. 138 By virtue of its purpose, the tendency-wit has at its disposal sources of pleasure to which harmless wit has no access. 1954 D. Riesman Individualism Reconsidered (1955) xxii. 349 The id expresses its criticism by what Freud called tendency-wit, but then turns to its masters with a smile, saying, ‘After all,..it's only a joke.’ 1964 M. Wohlgelernter Israel Zangwill vi. 87 A determination to self-criticism that Freud called ‘tendency-wit’. < as lemmas |
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