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Figure of speech (category Articles containing Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text)metaphor told as an anecdote to illustrate or teach a moral lesson. Paradiastole: extenuating a vice in order to flatter or soothe. Paradox: use of apparently...25 KB (3,030 words) - 09:25, 25 October 2024
passed into the European cultural mainstream. According to the story, Damocles was flattering his king, Dionysius, exclaiming that Dionysius was truly...22 KB (2,168 words) - 15:14, 22 November 2024- Rationalization (psychology) (category Articles to be expanded from January 2023)one's own. Rationalizations are used to defend against feelings of guilt, maintain self-respect, and protect oneself from criticism. Rationalization happens...12 KB (1,377 words) - 22:24, 24 August 2024
- refute someone else because it is better to be delivered from harm oneself than to deliver someone else from harm. Gorgias, whose profession is persuasion...21 KB (3,158 words) - 08:55, 23 October 2024
- muscles as a way to process his pain and interpret the world ... It's a terrifying endeavor to open up oneself and your family — to share the most personal...131 KB (14,696 words) - 03:36, 18 November 2024
relates oneself to those matters of fact. Since how one acts is, from the ethical perspective, more important than any matter of fact, truth is to be found...147 KB (24,001 words) - 01:44, 10 November 2024- trouble". - "Because he sabo me, now boss mad at me!" sakar – (From Malay) To flatter, to lick one's boots. Derived from a Malay term meaning 'sugar' (although...103 KB (12,828 words) - 07:27, 20 November 2024
Grunge (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)introspection and an exploration of what it means to be true to oneself. Grunge was also an influence on later genres such as post-grunge. The word "grunge"...183 KB (19,957 words) - 05:57, 17 November 2024
Socrates (redirect from Sacrifice a cock to Asclepius)ironic when using praise to flatter or when addressing his interlocutors. Scholars are divided on why Socrates uses irony. According to an opinion advanced...90 KB (11,570 words) - 16:11, 9 November 2024- selectively attend to flattering information and ignore unflattering information, with the consequence that flattering information is subject to deeper encoding...34 KB (4,286 words) - 15:12, 23 April 2024
Belongingness (redirect from Need to belong)emotional need to be an accepted member of a group. Whether it is family, friends, co-workers, a religion, or something else, some people tend to have an 'inherent'...79 KB (10,740 words) - 18:47, 13 October 2024- Picturing Tolkien (redirect from Picturing Tolkien: Essays on Peter Jackson's The Lord of the Rings Film Trilogy)benefits on those around him; he is selfless, resists temptation, and abstains from sex throughout the quest. Croft writes that this flatters the "adolescent...21 KB (2,618 words) - 15:23, 19 August 2024
- Søren Kierkegaard (category Articles prone to spam from November 2014)Christian movement: one does not reflect oneself into Christianity; but one reflects oneself out of something else and becomes, more and more simply, a...212 KB (28,390 words) - 09:49, 22 November 2024
Netherlandish Proverbs (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)Turvy World) is a 1559 oil-on-oak-panel painting by Pieter Bruegel the Elder that depicts a scene in which humans and, to a lesser extent, animals and...74 KB (1,352 words) - 05:53, 7 November 2024
A Treatise of Human Nature (redirect from A Treatise on Human Nature)harmful to oneself (even when courteously concealed from others), and military glory is often extremely harmful to others, nevertheless there is something admirable...117 KB (17,443 words) - 13:54, 16 February 2024
Kawaii (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)characterized by wearing many "decorations" on oneself. It is considered to be self-decoration. The goal of this fashion is to become as vibrant and characterized...45 KB (5,002 words) - 00:35, 25 October 2024
freedom from suffering is attained only through submission to something greater than oneself. Clamence, through his confession, sits in permanent judgment...22 KB (3,382 words) - 11:18, 24 October 2024- Manchu language (section bimbi "to be")holes" from sangga "hole" -ki, e.g. acabuki "flatterer" from acabu- "to flatter", ambaki "arrogant" from amba "big". The diminutive suffixes are -kan/ken/kon...135 KB (17,127 words) - 13:35, 22 November 2024
Selfie (category Commons category link is on Wikidata)being controlled with a self-timer or remote. The concept of shooting oneself while viewing their own image in the camera's LCD monitor is also known...93 KB (8,342 words) - 10:29, 17 November 2024
Venezuelan Spanish (category Articles with sections that need to be turned into prose from October 2022)Encaletar = v. to hide something or to keep information to oneself in a particular sneaky way. Enchivarse = v. To borrow something, use hand-me-downs...47 KB (6,312 words) - 23:56, 27 September 2024
- equals. The aim of literary study is not to amuse the hours of leisure; it is to awake oneself, it is to be alive, to intensify one's capacity for pleasure
- among writers to flatter the reigning monarch, as Edmund Spenser flattered Queen Elizabeth I in The Faerie Queene, William Shakespeare flattered King James
- washroom utvyotexuer = to deceive oneself, to delude oneself, to fool oneself utvyotexuyea = self-delusional utvyovider = to flatter oneself utxen = individualization