- Look up
impersonality in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Impersonality may
refer to:
Impersonal p****ive voice, a verb
voice that
decreases the valency...
- linguistics, an
impersonal verb is one that has no
determinate subject. For example, in the
sentence "It rains", rain is an
impersonal verb and the pronoun...
-
personal pronoun you can
often be used in the
place of one, the
singular impersonal pronoun, in
colloquial speech. The
generic you is
primarily a colloquial...
- The
impersonal p****ive
voice is a verb
voice that
decreases the
valency of an
intransitive verb (which has
valency one) to zero.: 77 The
impersonal p****ive...
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manifesto and
aligning impersonality with the
negation of the personal,
contends that Loy “eschew[s] even
apparent lyric impersonality” by “maintain[ing]...
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appears with first- or second-person reference. It is
sometimes called an
impersonal pronoun. It is more or less
equivalent to the
Scots "a body", the French...
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branch of
literary realism, and
realism had
favored fact, logic, and
impersonality over the imaginative, symbolic, and supernatural.
Frank Norris, an American...
- used in
constructions where there is no
grammatical subject such as with
impersonal verbs (e.g., it is raining) or in
existential clauses (there are many...
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questioning their loyalties. All the
while the
alien stalks with cold
impersonal efficiency,
taking out the self-styled
militia one by one, and duplicating...
- who can be
related to as a
person (anthropomorphic),
instead of as an
impersonal force, such as the Absolute. In the
context of
Christianity and other...
