Meanings (ES + gloss)
motivo • tópico
Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.
They have completely supported the Russians diplomatically, they’ve abstained in key votes at the United Nations, they’ve absolutely cynically repeated all the Russian tropes, part…
You have to give director Colm McCarthy, a Scottish TV veteran making his feature film debut, and writer Mike Carey, adapting his own novel, credit for attempting the seemingly imp…
tropo
A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
Law is the rule of human conduct. When this term is applied in reference to the governing principles of all actions, inanimate as well as animate, and arising from impulse or neces…
Since the tories have thus disappointed my hopes, / And will neither regard my figures nor tropes; I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name, / And be a true whig, while I'm…
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