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expressed by animal communication
( in animal communication: Information displayed by mammals )
...cease after reunion occurs. In short, it appears that if an animal is frustrated from engaging in activities of sufficient social importance to merit communication, it may be able to encode its frustration with respect to that activity.
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expressed by animal communication animal communication
...cease after reunion occurs. In short, it appears that if an animal is frustrated from engaging in activities of sufficient social importance to merit communication, it may be able to encode its frustration with respect to that activity.
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contribution to French literature French literature
...(1980; The Four Wise Men) were subversive rewritings of ancient tales. Other writers provided more direct responses to the political and economic frustrations of the decade: J.M.G. Le Clézio’s apocalyptic fictions, for example, evoked the alienation of life in technological, consumerist society.
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- Biography of J. M. G. Le Clezio
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contribution of Minamoto Minamoto Shitagō
...revealed his discontent and frustration over his lack of success in official life. He frequently participated in poetry contests. During the Shōhei era (931–938) he compiled the Wamyō ruijūshō, a dictionary of Japanese and Chinese words by categories, which was the first dictionary in Japan. He is also thought to be the author of many other works,...
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American literature American literature
...In plays such as Glengarry Glen Ross (1984), he showed brilliantly how men reveal their hopes and frustrations obliquely, through their language, and in Oleanna (1992) he fired a major salvo in the gender wars over sexual harassment.
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discussed in biography Nijhoff, Martinus
In his first volume, De wandelaar (1916; “The Wanderer”), his negative feelings of isolation and noninvolvement are symbolized in wildly grotesque figures, and the image of the dance of death is prevalent. The only solution to this spiritual frustration is suicide, as enacted in the short verse drama Pierrot aan de lantaarn (1918; “Pierrot at the...
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