单词 | time-ese |
释义 | Time-eseadj.n. A. adj. Characteristic or reminiscent of Time magazine, esp. in respect of its prose style.The magazine was founded in 1923; by the mid 20th century it had developed a distinctive style, sometimes considered as characterized by convoluted syntax and the prolific use of wordplay. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [adjective] > other specific style judicial1532 heroic1590 judiciary1603 wild1645 heroi-comic1708 mock-heroic1708 heroi-comical1712 flebilea1734 prosai-comi-epic1749 lusory1779 sulphureous1791 harlequinic1804 mock-heroical1825 newspaperish1825 marmoreal1892 kailyard1895 freestyle1906 paperback1921 nouny1926 Time-ese1947 nounal1952 kitchen sink1959 effectist1961 writerly1974 dirty realist1984 1947 H. L. Bird This Fascinating Advertising Business iv. xxv. 353 Tide..has..a range of articles..departmentalized much after the fashion of its parent, although not attempting Timese phraseology. 1960 College Eng. 21 403/2 I would demand quotation marks around ‘run-of-the-slope skiers’ in the following typically Timese sentence. 2000 T. Smith Little Gray Men 167 Time magazine called it [sc. Forbidden Planet] ‘nifty’ and added in typically inscrutable Time-ese fashion, ‘The special effects should convince any wavering space cadet that it's ether or.’ B. n. Writing or language considered to be typical or reminiscent of Time magazine. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > [noun] > other specific styles mock-heroica1668 far-fetch1813 periodicalism1837 pastoralism1842 book-speech1852 nounism1904 regionalism1909 Time-ese1952 kitchen-sinkery1964 nukespeak1979 1952 O. Prescott In My Opinion x. 150 A ‘quickie’ written in the worst excesses of Timese (then more flagrant than it has since become with age and mellowing), this was a hasty account of war in the Philippines. 1958 C. Logue in Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. p. xxiii/1 They can model their syntax on the new ‘international-English’ style—a compound of Hemingway and Time-ese. 1997 Washington Post (Nexis) 6 Apr. (Mag.) w4 The previous sentence is an example of a language known as Time-ese, after Time magazine. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1947 |
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