Ereignis is a word for that irruptive dimension, the historical point at which thought can latch onto Being: it is equally implicated in thought, being, and history. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
The second deconstructive strategy, which Derrida identifies with French philosophy in the 1960s, affirms an absolute break with tradition, seeking to change ground in a discontinuous and irruptive fashion. From Wordnik.com. [enowning] Reference
There are no foreseeable human-related threats to wolverines Lynx Lynx are cyclic or irruptive in the Alaskan Arctic, and in areas where snowshoe hares become periodically abundant, lynx can become abundant. From Wordnik.com. [Climate change and terrestrial wildlife management in the Alaskan Arctic] Reference
Bohemian Waxwing - an irruptive winter resident in the Bitterroot Valley. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to 13 countries meet in bid to save wild tigers] Reference
A vivid and sudden perception of truth, or a severe scrutiny after it, may elevate the voice, and burst with an irruptive heat on the subdued tone of conversation. From Wordnik.com. [Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions] Reference
How desultory and irruptive is the grace he ministers, how little respective of the work he has already begun in others, whom he might employ to be the medium of his power!. From Wordnik.com. [Christian Nurture.] Reference
East meets west here many times, tropical birds wander across international boundaries without notifying homeland security; vagrant and irruptive species make occasional appearances. From Wordnik.com. [Epinions Recent Content for Home] Reference
Bohemian Waxwing - an irruptive winter resident in the Bitterroot Valley fish found in the Kerala segment of the Western Ghats, in the IUCN Red List is an important step in the struggle to. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Leopard rescued from Jodhpur factory] Reference
Board of Health, we find other low types and stealthy diseases, such as typhoid and irruptive fevers, and there we shall find them again when the summer and autumnal pestilences have yielded place to those which belong to the indoor poisoned air in the winter. From Wordnik.com. [The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand] Reference
Movements: local migratory, irruptive. From Wordnik.com. [Tributes to Aldo Leopold] Reference
"An irruptive species, the book says, which means they won't be back next year or next, like my grandmother, for instance. From Wordnik.com. [NewWest Bozeman] Reference
If Mr Henley in his irruptive if not spiteful. From Wordnik.com. [Robert Louis Stevenson: a record, an estimate, and a memorial] Reference
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