taxonomizing

In fact, I have little patience with any classifying/taxonomizing that does not then deliver payoff -- it's like chopping up the mirepoix and then not cooking anything with it.

Ferule & Fescue Flavia 2010

Needless to say all taxonomizing in that way is purely speculative unless and until MHBS is identified as a real cognitive system, measurable in the old fMRI.

An Ill Wind in Tortuca - The Panda's Thumb 2010

I said "should be" easier in art than in writing because the literary world is absolutely obsessed with formal writing education; hundreds of books are currently in print taxonomizing the crafts of fiction, poetry, memoir, playwriting, screenwriting, etc.

SeeLight: 2006

Comments seelight, i am so glad that you're taxonomizing your language peeves! and i agree with much of what you say, even if it means that i've now re-written this little comment some eight times or howevermany already. but i've got to respond to your post on pithy, which was not so, um, pithy. pithy is a great word, because it specifically means "a maximum of effect from a minimum of words."

Strunk and Light IV: Using it just to use it 2006

I said "should be" easier in art than in writing because the literary world is absolutely obsessed with formal writing education; hundreds of books are currently in print taxonomizing the crafts of fiction, poetry, memoir, playwriting, screenwriting, etc.

Fad Writing and Morality 2006

In this oft-quoted passage made popular by -- sigh -- August Derleth while taxonomizing HPL's fiction, Lovecraft is actually referring to his poetry.

Kenneth Hite's Journal princeofcairo 2007

But for all his genealogical concerns, Rousseau, and indeed many other eighteenth-century authors, showed a good deal less interest in taxonomizing the emotions according to principled systems than did their predecessors.

17th and 18th Century Theories of Emotions Schmitter, Amy M. 2006

Rhetorical works, such as those by Aristotle and Cicero, provided a great deal of material for taxonomizing and manipulating the emotions.

17th and 18th Century Theories of Emotions Schmitter, Amy M. 2006

It is hardly surprising, then, that Blake's Bromion, who wishes to subject all things to the taxonomizing scrutiny of his phallic "infinite microscope," ultimately finishes his lecture on the marvels of nature by celebrating "the joys of riches and ease" in a world that is monolithically governed by "one law for both the lion and the ox" (4: 21-22).

Gender, Environment, and Imperialism in William Blake's _Visions of the Daughters of Albion_ 2001

This kind of invisible taxonomizing may lead one unconsciously to think of, say, a black woman in a formal evening gown as "funny looking" or as though she were in drag.

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