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In English literature, British North America was the geographic locus classicus for adventure and exploration stories about European encounters with the noble savage natives, such as the historical novel The Last of the Mohicans: A Narrative of 1757 (1826), by James Fenimore Cooper, and the epic poem The Song of Hiawatha (1855), by Henry ...
Savage invited his readers to create a sex-related definition for "santorum" to "memorialize the Santorum scandal [...] by attaching his name to a sex act that would make his big, white teeth fall out of his big, empty head." [30] The winning definition was "the frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex."
GGG ("good, giving, and game"), a sex-positive ideal coined by sex-advice columnist Dan Savage; Giant Global Graph, a neologism to differentiate between the existing World Wide Web and that of Web 3.0; Gurgula language (ISO 639-3 code: ggg), a Rajasthani language of Pakistan; GGG, a codon for the amino acid glycine
Savage is a derogatory term to describe a person or people the speaker regards as primitive and uncivilized. It has predominantly been used to refer to indigenous, tribal, and nomadic peoples. Sometimes a legal, military, and ethnic term, it has shifted in meaning since its first usages in the 16th century. [by whom?]
Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
A contemporary review in Kirkus Reviews praised Savage's storytelling for its "skill and scope" and the "cautious, yet concise, characterizations to the refined horror of its denouement." [ 2 ] In her afterword to the book, author Annie Proulx describes The Power of the Dog as a "literary artwork" and an influence on her works like " Brokeback ...
Jimmy Savage (1910–1951), or Savage, American journalist; Alan Savage, a pen name of Christopher Nicole (1930–2017), British fiction and non-fiction writer; OMFG (musician) or Alex Savage, British-Canadian music producer Loell Bergen (born 1992) Savage family (or families) of the English and Irish gentry
His renowned study of suicide, The Savage God, gained added resonance from his friendship with Plath. He also wrote on divorce ( Life After Marriage ), dreams ( Night ), and the oil industry ( Offshore ), as well as his hobbies of poker ( The Biggest Game In Town ) and mountaineering ( Feeding the Rat , a profile of his frequent climbing ...