delusion that its usages per se and simply as ‘contemporary’ – irrespective of whether they are terser, more vivid (or even nobler!) – have some peculiar validity above those of all other times, so that not to use them (even when quite unsuitable in tone) is a solecism, a gaffe, a thing at which one’s friends shudder or feel hot in the collar. Sample sentences with to stand aloof Germany was too strong to stand aloof, for that might unite Europe against it. I am sorry to find you affected by the extraordinary 20th. has lost the trick of putting a word desired to emphasize (for pictorial, emotional or logical reasons) into prominent first place, without addition of a lot of little ‘empty’ words (as the Chinese say), so much the worse for it. ‘They also picked out some helmets and round shields’.) But this is not normal order, and if mod.
1 aloof adjective Some people say that the British. Some (wrongly) class it as an ‘inversion’, since normal order is ‘They also chose helmets’ or ‘they chose helmets too’. TEN WORDS IN CONTEXT 1 aloof adjective Choose the meaning closest to that of the boldfaced word. I can see no more reason for not using the much terser and more vivid ancient style, than for changing the obsolete weapons, helps, shields, hauberks into modern uniforms. He must hold himself aloof from all interested parties, railways and local authorities alike, so that he is quite impartial and is not prejudiced at all. His partner Barnaby (Bunny) is asocial, aloof, relentlessly formal and generally unconcerned about anything other than avenging. Why deliberately ignore, refuse to use the wealth of English which leaves us a choice of styles – without any possibility of unintelligibility. Tolkien, responding to criticism of his ‘archaic’ style, wrote the following: See also its treatment here, which discusses the devices of lyric poetry, including in Le Guin and Tolkien. To further improve your English pronunciation, we suggest you do the following: Work on word/sentence reduction: in some countries, reducing words and sentences.
Yes, this is the poetic device known as hyperbaton.
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