How To Use Lolita In A Sentence
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I felt it a totally inappropriate choice by the publishers given the girl in the painting is about the same age as Lolita (much younger than her 14 years in the movie adaptation) and is cropped down version of a painting which originally included a cat.
A Book by Any Other Cover « Write Anything
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On some level, I think HH is the conqueror, and Lolita is his new land … he ravages and pillages her in fine European tradition, and yet he fails to understand either what he is trying to get from her, or what she is actually giving him.
Reading Lolita « Tales from the Reading Room
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It finishes this weekend with the third outing of the Anime Festival, taking in film screenings Redline and the original 1954 Godzilla, cutesy J-pop performances, and fashion shows showcasing the Victorian doll-style Lolita look.
This week's new events
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InsomniacLolita - Your comment literally made me lough out loud.
Camera Critters: Fuji
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In both, they have a passionate affair and finally Lolita dies, devastating her lover.
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Because in Humbert's private mythology, Dolly is the "nymphet" Lolita, a creature whose "true nature is not human, but … demoniac," a changeling without family or history, existing on an "intangible island of entranced time," where neither she nor Humbert will ever grow up.
Lolita At 50, And Forever Young
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Lolita is his preferred nymphet, and the book is a record of his disastrous affair with her.
From the archive, 23 January 1959: Lolita and its critics
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His emphasis upon Lolita’s thisness, what Joyce called haecceity, is the unshakable foundation of his effort to restore her individuality, to break the spell of her “nymphage,” to see her as the unique woman he has uniquely damaged.
The enactment of moral experience
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It has a concealed door, falsely mysterious, imitation of a hotel hallway, phantom of the "lush" Duk Duk Ranch where Quilty takes Lolita and has her perform "filthy, fancy" deeds; through the door is a seedy lounge, upholstered in burgundy velvet, where a wheezing electric system is triggered whenever a client enters, and a theater curtain is raised, revealing a mirrored wall.
In the Footsteps of Tocqueville (Part Three)
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Humbert takes Lolita on an extraordinary journey across America so that he can continue to indulge his nympholepsy without having to worry that someone will discover the true nature of his relationship with Lolita.
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demands the Daily Telegraph in an article condemning contemporary sexy schoolgirl fashions, while Tokyo's Daily Yomiuri refers to "the Lolita-like sex appeal" of preteen Japanese anime characters.
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An Elegant Gothic Lolita, EGL or Gothic Lolita for short, is a Japanese teen or young adult who dresses in amazingly elaborate Gothic looking babydoll costumes.
Boing Boing: March 21, 2004 - March 27, 2004 Archives
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And Lolita's delicately depicted retreat into affectlessness becomes in Margaux a repeated and overt psychotic dissociation, as over-described as if it were taken straight from a case study.
Tiger, Tiger by Margaux Fragoso – review
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But only novels with an extraliterary reputation, which have clambered off the page into a culture of received images—The Count of Monte-Cristo, perhaps, or The War of the Worlds or even Lolita, I am sorry to say—will lend themselves to future mashups with a user interface.
Archive 2010-01-01
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It is true that teenage mags can be vile little publications hellbent on creating a generation of Lolitas, dressed up in sparkly halter-neck frocks and the latest eyeshadow.
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The critical judgments are venturesomely banal ( "In countless variations, both fictional and dramatic, he studies illusions destined sooner or later to be shattered against the trivialities of everyday life"), and the psychological probings, full of self-congratulatory assumptions about Chekhov's motivations, unconsciously resemble, at times, Nabokov's parody of the "scholar" who writes the bogus preface to Lolita.
Short Reviews
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The demands which Humbert makes upon Lolita, with his appalling sentimentality, cannot possibly be met by her: and the result is a bitter comedy in which the nymphet answers his passion by demand for more iced lollies or fudge sundaes.
From the archive, 23 January 1959: Lolita and its critics
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Locus locust logo logorrhea lois lowry lolcats lolita
Science fiction's subordination - Suvudu - Science Fiction and Fantasy Books, Movies, and Games
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That alone would make it a collector's item, but it's particularly notable because the ostensible premise of Nabokov's best-known novel ( "ostensible" because Lolita is not simply about an older man's affair with a preteenage girl) caused a scandal that kept the book itself from finding an American publisher for nearly three more years.
The Believer
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She is blowsy, slightly needy, and struggling to keep in check the precocious sexuality of her only daughter, aptly named Lolita.
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Like Pale Fire, Lolita begins with an immoderate conceit that allows its author and reader to explore the extravagant, pleasurable, and disturbing fringes of the language.
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The genres, however, include a variety of subgenres, such as cyberpunk, punk, funk, dramatised Western style, goth, lolita, and warmono.
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Yes, that's Long Island"Lolita" Amy Fisher with her top-notch, assome commenters put it, "drugstoremakeup," about to hit the road andbecome apole-dancing stripperfor cash across the US.
Rock Bottom for Long Island "Lolita"
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W/r/t Nabokov: I posted a list of things he is reported to have 'loathed' recently on my blog the Small Boats one following a BBC documentary on Lolita that was aired last Saturday.
Categories of the novel
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Worst Husband Moment: When Charlotte tries to seduce Humbert, the only way he can fulfill his husbandly duties is by staring at a framed picture of Lolita.
Top 10 Worst Movie Husbands » Scene-Stealers
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If we're going by just "overrated" not all the way to "terribly disappointing" I'd like to nominate Lolita, as, even though it's a calumniation of many Nabikov obsessions, it is certainly not his best.
Overrated novels
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Today, the term "lolita" has come to imply an oversexed teenage siren, although Nabokov, for his part, never intended to create such associations.
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They wouldn't get past its lacily alliterative first line — "Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins" — with its carefully balanced pairings ( "light/fire," "life/loins").
Lolita At 50, And Forever Young
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I first tried to crack Lolita in my teens and I went "feh" after 20 pages.
TEV GIVEAWAY: BEAUTIFUL CHILDREN
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The most popular of cosplay themes are the Anime character and Gothic Lolita look.
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The Lolita Pomegranate Margarita and Martini glasses are sold individually, for about $25 each, and they come in beautiful "hatbox" - style packaging that needs no wrapping.
Blisstree
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The first years at my University, for example, have Lolita as a key set text.