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Politics : Idea Of The Day
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To: IQBAL LATIF who wrote (49282)10/17/2005 6:52:09 AM
From: IQBAL LATIF   of 50167
 
Word of the Day for Monday October 17, 2005

aberrant \a-BERR-unt; AB-ur-unt\, adjective:
Markedly different from an accepted norm; Deviating from the
ordinary or natural type; abnormal.

The impulse toward individual expression is a recent and a
possibly aberrant one in art.
--Nicholas Delbanco, "From Echoes Emerge Original Voices,"
[1]New York Times, June 21, 1999

These characters are so wild and aberrant they are close to
appearing lunatics.
--Bosley Crowther, "Who's Afraid of Audacity?" [2]New York
Times, July 10, 1966

But I could never accept the aberrant dictates of socialist
realism which ruled out all mystery and turned literary
activity into a propaganda exercise.
--Mario Vargas Llosa, [3]Making Waves
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