Re: "Life that is"

paco2004 — Wed, 10 May 2006 00:26:04 GMT

MrPedantic wrote:
I would read "Life" as a restatement of the preceding "life", and "that" as a defining relative pronoun:
"...weeping inconsolably and trying to look at life ahead â life that is more engaging, more nuanced and ultimately more disturbing than art, in this case."

HelloãMrP

Thank you for the opinion. So I feel the writing style here is of abnormally elaborate rhetoric. Am I right?

paco

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jeff_999 — Fri, 12 Aug 2005 13:55:27 GMT

The author did not see the _______ inherent in her scathing criticism of writing style so similar to her own.
A. disinterest
B. incongruity
C. pessimism
D. compliment
E. symbolism

The answer is B. I can tell. But what on earth is the sentence trying to imply?... It may probably be because I got confused with the objective personal pronoun "her" here. Maybe the second "her" refers to the author of a certain book/article, and the first "her" refers to a critic of this book/article's criticism/review. Tell me I got it fully right. If I didn't, what exactly is that?
Thank you so much for your time.

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Re: "Life that is"

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