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  • Juxtaposition is a greatly underappreciated form of humor.

    The Ethics of the Ecorazzi 2009

  • Juxtaposition is a greatly underappreciated form of humor.

    The Ethics of the Ecorazzi 2009

  • With a woman's instinct, Mrs. Carey had known that Geoffrey would not have been so indifferent to her if he had been fancy free; when she first saw him, before dinner, her heart throbbed with passion, and she determined to wind around him again the chain of flowers which he had snapped so easily when the great god of modern love, "Juxtaposition," deserted her.

    The King's Men A Tale of To-morrow John Boyle O'Reilly 1867

  • Entries in the competition were judged on three criteria: creativity, quality of photograph and significance to this year's theme 'Juxtaposition'.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news business sport the Daily Telegraph newspaper Sunday Telegraph 2009

  • Juxtaposition is the act of placing two things side by side in order to compare or contrast.

    In Fiction, Opposites Attract Jennifer Vanderbes 2011

  • Pingback by Juxtaposition « The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul — April 18, 2010 @ 12: 26 am

    Blockbusters and the Tao Te Ching « Tales from the Reading Room 2010

  • For extra credit, tell us what book you'd pair with the other beer they sent: BrewDog/Cambridge/Stone Juxtaposition Black Pilsner, with more info here (scroll down).

    Guilty Pleasures 2010

  • Non-immediate Juxtaposition: "No one standing in this house today can pass a puritanical test of purity that some are demanding that our elected leaders take."

    Rhetorical Figures in Sound: Alliteration 2010

  • What an Interesting Juxtaposition by Terry Adcock on Friday, Jan 8, 2010 at 10: 04: 41 AM

    Is Anyone Telling Us The Truth? 2010

  • Yesterday's reading was all scientifical: From Science (11 July 2008), "A Positive Test of East Antarctica-Laurentia Juxtaposition With the Rodina Supercontinent," and from the new Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology (which I could finally get to, having finished the June issue), "New protocetid whales from Alabama and Mississippi, and a new Cetacean clan, Pelagiceti."

    She doesn't have anything you want to steal. Well, nothing you can touch. greygirlbeast 2008

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