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***UPDATED*** A Complete List of Words, Phrases, and a Person I Had to Look Up While Reading “Look, I Made a Hat” by Stephen Sondheim

January 3, 2013 by Rebekah

***UPDATED*** A Complete List of Words, Phrases, and a Person I Had to Look Up While Reading “Look, I Made a Hat” by Stephen Sondheim

(Image source) olla podrida sententious gnomic Pirandello   Only four things! Either I’ve gotten smarter since Finishing the Hat, or Sondheim has taken pity on his less-educated readers. I’m happy to know the word sententious now. To think I’ve been sententious AND gnomic all my life and didn’t have the right vocabulary with which to […]

Filed Under: Arts, Learning Tagged With: Famous People, Music, Musicals, Product Reviews, Reading, Stephen Sondheim, Verse

A Partial List of Words and Phrases I Had to Look Up While Reading “Finishing the Hat” by Stephen Sondheim

December 9, 2012 by Rebekah

A Partial List of Words and Phrases I Had to Look Up While Reading “Finishing the Hat” by Stephen Sondheim

(Image source) uxorious bathetic homiletic explication de mortuis nil nisi bonum compos mentis stultifying sine qua non exegesis interstices mise en scene superannuated This list could also be titled “Words I Look Up Every Six Months, Dagnabbit” or “Words One Never Uses as an Elementary School Teacher.” Can you use them all in one cohesive […]

Filed Under: Learning Tagged With: Finishing the Hat, Mr. Jaunty, Music, Musicals, Product Reviews, Reading, Stephen Sondheim, Verse, Vocabulary

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