-
degenerated into a
derogatory term for a
Muslim priest that
connotes a
semiliterate, backward,
often bigoted village imam. In Iran,
until the
early 20th...
-
muscles his way into an
audition and wins. In the film,
Leroy is also
semiliterate, but this was
dropped in
favor of him
having "fourth-grade
reading level"...
-
Istanbul adventure or
those dry
reports in the 'abbreviated
style of the
semiliterate Soviet'."
Before the book was published,
Matthews sold the
movie rights...
-
Historian John Mack
Faragher cautions that the folk
image of
Boone as
semiliterate is misleading,
arguing that
Boone "acquired a
level of
literacy that...
- on the
fierce concern with the news that they find in
preliterate or
semiliterate peoples. […] It is difficult, if not impossible, to find a
society that...
- said of Bonanno, "In a
world where most of the
players were, at best,
semiliterate,
Bonanno read poetry,
boasted of his
knowledge of the classics, and gave...
- Altman-Brackett Marlowe, pla**** by
Elliott Gould, is an untidy, unshaven,
semiliterate, dim-wit slob who
could not
locate a
missing skys****er and
would be...
-
intelligible for
educated or
literate users of the other,
while illiterate or
semiliterate users of
lower registers of each one may have
difficulty understanding...
- life
attain to reliability, it is
forever open to the
uninformed or
semiliterate meddler... The user who
visits Wikipedia to
learn about some subject...
-
second set of
audio recordings in
which Carlson referred to
Iraqis as "
semiliterate primitive monkeys" and said they "don't use
toilet paper or forks." Carlson...
