I've been having a mental block concerning this word for the longest time.... please help me! lol
It's used to describe someone wanting to do or say something but someone else has just done it, and so it would be awkward because they did it first, so although the thought is there, it's not the same.
Madeleine L'Engle I know uses this word when Charles Wallace kisses Mrs. Whatsit after the conversation concerning her starhood, and Meg wants to kiss her as well, but feels it would be - and here I can't remember! I wish I had the book in front of me!!!
2006-09-04 14:21:58 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
Imitation, mimicry, repetition, redundant, ersatz...
Aloha
2006-09-04 14:27:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I've not read the book (but after reading summaries, I think now that I will!) Here's a website that may help you remember, or might give you the quote exactly. Good luck!
http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/wrinkle/
2006-09-04 14:29:39 · answer #2 · answered by habibah_al_sudiary 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"anything she or or Calvin did or said would be an anticlimax"
page 93 of Wrinkle in Time.
2006-09-04 14:35:42 · answer #3 · answered by Ginger/Virginia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Redundant. Exceeds what is needed or normal. Also check your Thesaurus.
2006-09-04 14:27:41 · answer #4 · answered by Mollywobbles 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'm almost sure the word is anti climactic (sp?)
2006-09-04 18:53:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
anti-climatic? Don't know the book you speak of.. and not sure that "awkward" is how I would describe anti-climatic, but it would fit the situations you describe.
2006-09-04 14:30:12 · answer #6 · answered by Silvatungfox 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Oh ya, I know the word. But ain't tellin' you.
2006-09-04 14:25:19 · answer #7 · answered by Sick Puppy 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
maybe struggle or i dont know thats hard im not good at this
2006-09-04 14:25:46 · answer #8 · answered by lissette_cordero95 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
o that's tough, maybe an exclupedia would help? sorry i couldn't
2006-09-04 14:28:50 · answer #9 · answered by littlepinksis 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
inappropriate
2006-09-04 14:45:12 · answer #10 · answered by sara l 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋