slipperiness

  • 131autobiography —    While critiques of intentionalism and representationalism may have pointed to the impossibility of unmediated self expression, autobiography has proved a resilient genre in recent years, even emerging on the cutting edge of critical theory.… …

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  • 132eel — noun a snake like fish with a slender elongated body and poorly developed fins, proverbial for its slipperiness. [Anguilla anguilla (Europe) and related species, order Anguilliformes.] ↘used in names of unrelated fishes that resemble the true… …

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