rechauffe

Here is Palladianism rechauffe for people who have made their money in the modern world but want to pretend that they are living as lords of the manor in a feudal society.

S.--On marche avec les pieds, mais on se rechauffe a l'electricite ou au charbon >>), entrecoupees d'imperatifs et d'exclamatifs (<< M.

The "Tale of the Two Kings and the Wasir's Daughters" is that of Shahrazad told in the third person, in fact a rechauffe of the Introduction.

Tout est parti du principe que la terre se rechauffe d'environ 3[degrees]C tous les 100 m de profondeur.

But this current tour, presented by Duncan C Weldon and Paul Elliott (men who do much to ensure quality theatre is kept alive in this country) has a kind of rechauffe feel to it, as though it has been warmed up from the production scene last year in Stratford.

Elle le rechauffe, le protege, le nourrit, il grandit, sort de ses plis, s'etire, un jour il est pret [...] elle recommence le passe, elle l'ordonne, sa veritable demeure, elle la range (Le Ravissement 46).

It is no use giving a mere rechauffe of old legends."(3) Tennyson did not see the value of retelling a story simply for its own sake, and he only returned to familiar classical material when he felt he had something distinctly novel to do with it.

There is no question that the point of inscriptions and mascarades was to succeed hic et nunc, and that belated and exegetic publication, if anything, confirms initial failure and smacks of rechauffe - a supplement(21) if ever there was one.

Richard Rorty comes out with a programme which sounds dire in the extreme--a rechauffe of the preciosity and jejuneness of Pater, Huysmans, and Wilde, in which he sees the prime value and 'aim of a just and free society as letting its citizens be as privatistic, "irrationalist" and aestheticist as they please so long as they do it on their own time--causing no harm to others and using no resources needed by those less advantaged'.

Fundamentalism characterizes the spirit of von Daniken's approach; his method, or mode of "explanation," is even more ancient, being in fact a rechauffe of one of the earliest attempts at a "scientific" explanation of religion and mythology: euhemerism.

When I was a professor I seemed to meet a great many students who were wholly possessed and beglamoured by Oscar Wilde, and some of them were, for a few weeks, mini-Wildes, dealing extensively in rechauffe wit of the 1890s.

It is no use giving a mere rechauffe of old legends." (43) Columbus supplies "Ulysses" with "something modern." If there is also something antique and legendary about such a frame, then joint stock companies of merchant adventurers can up-date it.