Posted on 03/28/2013 5:48:35 AM PDT by secret garden
In order that we might all raise the level of discourse and expand our language abilities, here is the daily post of "Word for the Day".
atavistic\at-uh-VIS-tik\ adjective
of, pertaining to, or characterized by atavism; reverting to or suggesting the characteristics of a remote ancestor or primitive type.
Example sentences:
Buck exhibits atavistic characteristics when his instincts and memories of an impossibly distant past "call" him and reassert themselves into his behavior.
-- Jack London, The Call of the Wild
...so that when Mrs. and Miss Hulme of Kansas City cut them dead in the Plaza one evening, it was only that Mrs. and Miss Hulme, like most people, abominated mirrors of their atavistic selves.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned
Etymology:
Derived from the Latin atavus meaning "ancestor," atavistic gained popularity in the 1870s.
The sentence must, in some way, relate to the news of the day. The Review threads are linked for your edification. ;-)
Practice makes perfect.....post on....
Review Thread One: Word For The Day, Thursday 11/14/02: Raffish
Review Thread Two: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/14/03: Roister
Review Thread Three: Word For The Day, Tuesday 1/28/03: Obdurate
WFB's attempt to emulate us ; ) No pushing at the door please!
Those of us with the gift of Irish blood are happy to use the word feisty instead of ODD. Adorable pic and it sounds like he used his character to his advantage as he grew up.
He and the progressives always win the PR wars in the media, don’t they? A for you.
What PR war? The so called journalists only give his side. It’s two to one.
Not so. When my older son was in the school the boys were required to wear ties to class. If a boy arrived at school without a tie (or lost it during the day) he had to go to the Prefect of Discipline and rent one (25 cents) or he couldn’t enter a school building. LOL. I’m sure that Br. Casey meted out harsher discipline for other crimes, but generally he was well liked and respected.
In case you are wondering how a boy could “lose” his tie during a day of classes, they were only required to wear the ties inside the buildings. One day I sat in the parking lot, waiting to pick up my son for the orthodontist, and watched boys changing classes. Every kid would whip off his tie (one handed) the moment he stepped out of the building. Then he would flail that tie at other boys furiously as he walked and swing it around his own neck and retie the knot (one handed) before stepping into the next building. The skill was amazing, but I vowed that day to never buy my kid a NEW tie to wear to school again. All of his ties came out of the St. Vinney’s bag (from his father’s closet) from then on.
By the time my younger son entered that school, they’d dropped the tie requirement! LOL.
I heard this on the radio just awhile ago-now I’ll be singing it for hours-
“A circumstance beyond our control, oh oh oh oh
The phone, the tv and the news of the world
Got in the house like a pigeon from hell, oh oh oh oh
Threw sand in our eyes and descended like flies
Put us back on the train
Oh, back on the chain gang
The powers that be
That force us to live like we do
Bring me to my knees
When I see what they’ve done to you
But I’ll die as I stand here today
Knowing that deep in my heart
They’ll fall to ruin one day
For making us part”
“Pride and Prejudice”-the British one with whats-her-name Knightly-is on Oxygen-I’ll put the song out of mind by watching her Elizabeth Bennett verbally emasculate that asshat Darcy-I never get tired of seeing that...
Keira, the stick. She’s very attractive and I love Jane Austen’s writings. I think I’m off to catch some zzz’s before tonight’s game.
It looks like you are having fun, posting from an iPad? A+ for you.
I read elsewhere that it has already been pointed out to the useful idiot from Dallas that our state constution does not support anything like that-it would cause the fetching of tar and feathers...
Longing for the good old days of maulers & brawlers while attending a boxing match makes you atavistic at a fistic event...
Ouch, SG-she isn’t any less endowed than I am-which is to say not at all-at least not in this movie. She did look a bit anorexic in another film I saw her in, though-something medieval, but I don’t remember the title.
Enjoy the game tonight...
Mik’s post reminded me that on my first datelike outing with MrT5-a trip to the coast with another couple, and all of us just friends-MrT5 and I were sitting on a jetty by a fishing pier in CC by our hotel that night, watching and listening to the waves while the other couple continued fishing.
We ended up discussing some psychologist’s book on atavistic memories we had both read. The author had written two chapters on the human response to the sound and motion of waves, which he believed was a very ancient and strong atavistic memory.
It must be why I take savage, snarling delight in fight/battle scenes in movies, howling with glee when the bad guy(s) go down. I’ve been told it isn’t ladylike...
A for you! I’m off to a hockey game, hoping there won’t be fisticuffs.
“fisticuffs”
If that happens, just don’t cheer them on...
Don’t have an ipad. I have a lousy computer that kept freezing while I attempted to post. I do have a new kindle fire hd. I am enjoying that, but haven’t gone online with it yet. It is awesome.
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