But, literally and metaphorically, Loudon's still the daddy, and his 21st album finds him on typically acerbic and wittily literate form. |
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But, from whichever direction it is approached, the same gulf lies between literate and aliterate minds. |
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The intimate relationship between oral, literate, and indeed visual culture is worth recalling. |
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People can't be occupied so easily once they are urbanized, industrialized, literate, connected by modern communications, and politically aware. |
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From a scene nurtured by punk rock and zines, it's literate yet accessible, questioning everything but never cynical. |
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The curriculum sets up a false opposition between a literate clergy and the illiterate laypeople. |
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The society, however literate and well informed it may be, does not know how to unshackle itself from the grip of the bullish and bearish media. |
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It showed intelligent, literate and bouncy pop music is still alive and kicking if you look hard enough. |
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The staff are usually smart, literate and weird, you can nick unlimited quantities of free books, and it's a great way to meet chicks! |
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These units thus provided a continuous process of turning unlettered barbarians into literate Roman citizens. |
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But how reassuring to learn that the readers are such a literate and well informed group. |
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Previous research has demonstrated that knowledge of book titles and authors' names is reflective of immersion in a literate environment. |
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The syllabic structure of Chinese requires memorization of at least three thousand characters to be literate. |
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On the basis of a questionnaire, it is estimated that at least one third of them are not scientifically or mathematically literate. |
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He received little formal schooling, but he was bright, energetic, and literate. |
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Perhaps the most literate and intelligent man of his time, Shakespeare was also manifestly a man of the theater. |
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This examination can develop children's aesthetic awareness and media savvy and help them become more careful and literate readers of media. |
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It is true language changes over time but its development must be driven by the literate if cohesion is to be maintained. |
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When the person loses the capability to derive and create meaning in a culturally significant way, he or she becomes less, not more, literate. |
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Today, many moviegoers have become psychologically literate, and Hollywood reflects this change. |
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The productive sector of the economy of any industrial nation demands a scientifically literate labor force. |
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That ability to create empathy is another mark of a spiritually literate movie. |
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As you would expect from such a literate, well travelled and much experienced man, the brief author's note at the end is full of good stuff. |
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To ensure that all theories meet these standards, it is essential that people be sufficiently scientifically literate. |
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The most key ingredient is a scientifically literate work force and general population. |
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In fact, they benefited greatly from the studies and were encouraged to become more biblically literate. |
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I enjoyed reading the transcripts of David's well-crafted, highly literate speeches. |
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I think comparative religion is a wonderful study, and we should be more theologically literate than we are. |
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From her novels, I thought she was considerably more theologically literate and orthodox. |
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This was especially so among the clergy, many of whom were barely literate. |
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Even those already literate in English adjusted to the new Creole system within five minutes. |
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Some of the more literate ones did write down a few particulars soon after the fracas in letters to friends and relatives. |
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Indeed, in such a literate society the ability to read and write had become a major social fault line. |
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By reading aloud, a literate person engages a child in language as they sit together, relaxed and quiet. |
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Within a few years, most Cherokees had become literate in their own language. |
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A thousand years ago, technology severely limited the amount of words the average literate person could read in a lifetime. |
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At the beginning of the 18th century only ten per cent of the people were literate in Wales, but revival brought change. |
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More than 80 percent of its population is literate, and life expectancy is over 70 years. |
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The printing press didn't abolish war, but it did create a literate population that was able to educate itself. |
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We alternated speaking in French, the language of all educated Mauritians, and English, the lingua franca of the computer literate. |
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We're one of the most literate and more numerate professions and we're highly adaptable. |
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He was quick to learn and was literate in both English and Irish and had a good understanding of the Brehan law. |
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In particular, businesses expect pupils leaving school to be literate and numerate. |
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This essay has shown how newspapers helped to create and shape an informal system of education for both literate and non-literate Spaniards. |
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I am computer literate but I find surfing the net is only equalled in its vapidity by the banality of today's TV programmes. |
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When you meet him, he's this very odd combination of literate Renaissance man and oafish uncle who says embarrassing things that you wish your girlfriend hadn't heard. |
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To say of Socrates that he is human is to say what he is, whereas to say that he is literate is not to say what he is but rather to give a quality that he has. |
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If you like flashy literate front men then it's advised to see this band. |
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She worked as a literate domestic slave in close contact with several masters and mistresses from whom she suffered whippings, beatings, and sexual abuse. |
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His ideas found a receptive audience in literate circles from Lisbon to Moscow, and they supply a convenient starting place for an examination of European political systems. |
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Through the fate of the one truly literate character in the novel, Thady's son Jason, the novel implies that writing offers no safe repository of title. |
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The Tangier traveller clearly felt at home in Tagedda, which had its own quarter of resident merchants from North Africa and a circle of literate scholars. |
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No doubt members of an oral or residually oral society, however, have greater powers of memory than those in a literate culture, who have let such capacities atrophy. |
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She was a literate, highly cultivated, liberally educated woman. |
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A modern state needed a population literate in the official language, and a population that was disciplined either by religious instruction or by a secular civic morality. |
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And like all learning, becoming literate is a lifelong process. |
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At present most literate Africans can read English or French. |
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I want to make Maine the most digitally literate society on Earth. |
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But is it not the case that literature supersedes history, as one of the ultimate signifiers in a universe literate in necessary layers of meanings? |
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Why is it so hard to find a moderately theologically literate reporter? |
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And the book turns out to be intelligent, literate, and thoughtful. |
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And this is the portion of the population who are computer literate. |
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The place is full of young men actively engaged in becoming literate, and of older ones among whom the proportion of literates is relatively high. |
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Of course, I didn't stop listening to American music, but it was true that, after grunge, this new literate, articulate and understandable music was welcome. |
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The Keep America Safe website was at least a globally literate and coherent representation of international security issues. |
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The average British sailor of those times was not very literate, and often his world was encompassed by the ship he sailed in, sometimes for years at a time. |
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The paper is the original scandal sheet, brought into being in 1843 to relay the details of celebrated divorce trials to a newly literate lower-middle class. |
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A very peculiar, literate yet threatening bagman, Fred, accosts him. |
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I have never been married, have one literate semi-civilised 12-year-old son and still have a sense of humour, so you could say I am relatively house trained. |
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He uses mime, movement, acrobatics and text in a very literate way. |
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And you need a mixed diet of stories to be emotionally literate. |
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In other words, abstract, objective, and analytical thought reflects a literate society, and concrete, formulaic, and mnemonic thinking marks an oral culture. |
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Those who are literate and have work permits may drive yellow cabs or use their profits from vending to open a restaurant, boutique, or import-export business. |
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School outcomes create categories of literate and non-literate. |
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Ninety-five per cent of members in our NOP survey said the main priority for the Government should be to ensure that all young people leave school literate and numerate. |
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Another important development was the popularization of science among an increasingly literate population. |
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In the later Neolithic and Bronze Age periods, under the Minoans, Crete had a highly developed, literate civilization. |
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The new literate population was due to a high rise in the availability of food. |
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Monasteries became centres of foreign influence, and provided sources of literate men, able to serve the crown's growing administrative needs. |
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Slaves were numerate and literate in significant numbers, and some were highly educated. |
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Throughout European history, an education in the classics was considered crucial for those who wished to join literate circles. |
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They provided sources of literate men, able to serve the crown's growing administrative needs. |
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It was the world's first literate civilization, and formed the first sets of written laws. |
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Communalism is part of the BJP's genetic makeup and its leaders are not literate enough to think beyond communal lines. |
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Barely literate in computerese, I had often e-prostrated before this junior lecturer so that he'd extricate me from my latest electronic blunder. |
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Pepper, which had helped to establish an entire genre of literate rock criticism, the White Album inspired no critical writing of any note. |
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The highly literate distaste for people who too passionately identify with fictional incarnations has a distinctly anticelebrity feel to it. |
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Nigeria as a society is composed of the partially-literate, aliterate, and literate avid readers. |
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But only the literate imagination can bring them back to life. |
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First, many thanks for giving us a de Camp tale. He is, to me, the most literate writer ever produced by stfantasy. |
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Formerly, the Lord Chancellor was almost always a churchman, as during the Middle Ages the clergy were amongst the few literate men of the realm. |
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They show two separate manuscript environments, and the transformation of the hymn as it goes from an oral tradition to a literate one. |
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A literate person's vocabulary is all the words he or she can recognize when reading. |
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This is one of those rare books that can be read to great advantage even if one is sufficiently literate but insufficiently numerate. |
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The sharp increase in literacy broke the monopoly of the literate elite on education and learning and bolstered the emerging middle class. |
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Cabezas should be literate in Spanish and have good moral character and property. |
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By the 13th century, northern and central Italy had become the most literate society in the world. |
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At the same time, it also led to a boom in printing, and Iceland today is one of the most literate societies in the world. |
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The Ostrogoths were probably literate in the 3rd century, and their trade with the Romans was highly developed. |
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Even within a literate civilization many events and important human practices are not officially recorded. |
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For many literate cultures, such as Ancient Greece and Mesopotamia, their surviving records are often incomplete and biased to some extent. |
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But in our study, there were mainly young, active, and literate pauciparous women who participated in the screening program. |
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Teachers of EFL generally assume that students are literate in their mother tongue. |
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Rapid globalization is driving the need for globally literate leaders. |
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People who were literate were automatically hired as teachers. |
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Earlier divisions are unknown because the Britons were not literate. |
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Any native or Chinese mestizo, 25 years old, literate in oral or written. |
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Poets in literate societies have sometimes copied the epic format. |
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In the West, the only inhibiting expense in the production of writings for an increasingly literate market was the manual labor of the scribe himself. |
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The Louisiana free people of color were often literate, had gained education, and a significant number owned businesses, properties, and even slaves. |
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Britain is found to be the only country in the developed world where the retiring generation is more literate and numerate than young adults, the Daily Express reported. |
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There are many ways to achieve a literate and numerate population. |
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Hippocratic medicine represented learned medical practice beginning with the Hippocratic Corpus having been written down, therefore requiring practitioners to be literate. |
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Geoffrey Chaucer wrote his narrative work The Canterbury Tales in a time of transition from vestigially oral culture to functionally literate print culture. |
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They are often being beaten over the head, berated into submission, absurdly dehumanized by senseless and mean corporate-style overlords, most of them barely literate. |
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However, as Gaelic medium education grows in popularity, a newer generation of literate Gaels is becoming more familiar with modern Gaelic vocabulary. |
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Most of the present generation of students are computer literate. |
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In the future, he hopes, more carders will become computer literate. |
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Only about half of speakers were fully literate in the language. |
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Early historical narratives of captured colonial Europeans, including perspectives of literate women captured by the indigenous peoples of North America, exist in some number. |
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The dominance of Latin among the literate elite may obscure the continuity of spoken languages, since all cultures within the Roman Empire were predominantly oral. |
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It was also the most literate and most educated region in the country. |
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Wodehouse, the most observant, literate, and witty lyricist of his day, and the team of Bolton, Wodehouse, and Kern had an influence felt to this day. |
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The hackerish look of dot-matrix fonts on screens and printers has partially prevented full acceptance of computers as tools for a literate public. |
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