Example sentences for: epistolae

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  • The phenomenon of names matching professions [EPISTOLAE, XXII,4,20] has been the subject of much discussion this year in the British magazine New Scientist , where it termed nominative determinism.

  • This is demonstrated in a variety of ways: a shared literacy and the assumptions and biases that go with it; an awareness of what books are for; consciousness and use of innumerable cultural allusions and educated idioms; and a relative ease in reading a periodical called VERBATIM, with sections called OBITER DICTA and EPISTOLAE.

  • Now I feel compelled to respond to Jack Orbaum's interesting letter [EPISTOLAE, XVII, 4] about the “mistranslation” of the Hebrew word ` almah in Isaiah 7:14, which Mr. Orbaum says ought not be translated `virgin' but `young woman.

  • Other comments appear in various EPISTOLAE.

  • Judge Scott's Canutian position [EPISTOLAE XVII, 3] reminds me of William Safire several years ago cravenly caving in to some of his readers who lambasted him for having written, “Who are you rooting for?”


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