constatation

Language does not operate in the mode of knowing or constatation of truths, but in the mode of persuasion, of rhetoric as a type of power rather than

Double-Take. Reading De Man and Derrida Writing on Tropes. 2005

Another sad constatation was that we started to forget all of it.

02/19/2006 - 02/26/2006 2006

Another sad constatation was that we started to forget all of it.

La Lista, the story of Venezuela McCarthyism 2006

For example, I proffer the constatation, 'Black ladders lack bladders.'

Crome Yellow Aldous Huxley 1928

‘An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he’s a thief is simply la constatation d’un fait.

Chapter IV. Part IV 1917

The amusement of this constatation is, as I have hinted, in the detail of the matter, and the detail is so dense, the texture of the figured and smoothed tapestry so loose, that the genius of Gyp herself, muse of general looseness, would certainly, once warned, have uttered the first disavowal of my homage.

The Awkward Age Henry James 1879

From this < i > constatation , this cold curiosity, proceed all the industry, the prosperity, the vitality of the place.

Italian Hours Henry James 1879

"An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he's a thief is simply _la constatation d'un fait_."

Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy 1869

“An honest man and an honest woman may be insulted, but to tell a thief he’s a thief is simply la constatation d’un fait.”

Anna Karenina 2003