A Check To [A Or B]
chill : a check to enthusiasm or warmth of feeling
And a chill fell over the service as mourners … carried a casket draped in white to the altar.— Katherine Creag and Jennifer Millman
Could I say the structure is: a check to 'enthusiasm' (or) a check to 'warmth of feeling'? i.e. a stoppage of enthusiasm or a stoppage of warmth of feeling
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anonymous Could I say the structure is: a check to 'enthusiasm' (or) a check to 'warmth of feeling'? e. a stoppage of enthusiasm or a stoppage of warmth of feeling I don't see anything about "structure" here.
- anonymous Could I say the structure is: a check to 'enthusiasm' (or) a check to 'warmth of feeling'?
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- a stoppage of enthusiasm or a stoppage of warmth of feeling I don't see anything about "structure" here.
- I see here, rather, a search for a particular shade of meaning.
- I don't suppose mourners can ever be called "enthusiastic", so in this sentence "a check to warmth of feeling" would seem to be the operative connotation.
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anonymousCould I say the structure is: a check to 'enthusiasm' (or) a check to 'warmth of feeling'? i.e. a stoppage of enthusiasm or a stoppage of warmth of feeling
I don't see anything about "structure" here. I see here, rather, a search for a particular shade of meaning.
I don't suppose mourners can ever be called "enthusiastic", so in this sentenc
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