- 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...
-
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...
- Cross."
Dennis Harvey of
Variety said: "This
uninspired detour into
impersonally commercial English-language
terrain for
Bosnian director Danis Tanovic...
- 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 Bahai'ism...
- 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...
-
questioning their loyalties. All the
while the
alien stalks with cold
impersonal efficiency,
taking out the self-styled
militia one by one, and duplicating...
- reality.
Naturalism includes detachment, in
which the
author maintains an
impersonal tone and
disinterested point of view; determinism,
which is
defined as...
