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French term or phrase:
sur un mode mineur
English translation:
in a minor key
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pershin
Apr 3, 2009 04:12
15 yrs ago
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French term
sur un mode mineur
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Si on dit qu'un pays est "encore messianique sur un mode mineur", est-ce que ça signifie qu'il l'est d'une manière "sombre et triste"? Je n'ai pas trouvé une bonne explication, peut-être vous pouvez m'aider. Merci!
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Melissa McMahon
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in a minor key
If you are referring to this context:
"L’Europe est encore messianique sur un mode mineur, militante de sa propre faiblesse, exportatrice d’humilité et de sagesse. Son apparent mépris d’elle-même cache mal une très haute infatuation."
(http://initiativeeuropeenneetsociale.over-blog.com/archive-1...
- then I'd say your interpretation is about right - "messianic in a minor key", ie 'melancholic' - a kind of melancholic grandiosity.
"L’Europe est encore messianique sur un mode mineur, militante de sa propre faiblesse, exportatrice d’humilité et de sagesse. Son apparent mépris d’elle-même cache mal une très haute infatuation."
(http://initiativeeuropeenneetsociale.over-blog.com/archive-1...
- then I'd say your interpretation is about right - "messianic in a minor key", ie 'melancholic' - a kind of melancholic grandiosity.
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Helen Shiner
: Agree with your answer but messianic means inspired by the belief in a messiah, hoping for someone to come and deliver them. Not melancholic./Your sentence is ambiguous and therefore misleading, sorry, but it is. Don't agree with you on messianic.
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I don't think I suggested that messianic meant melancholic - "melancholic" was my paraphrase of "in a minor key". Nb. I think here messianic means believing they ARE the messiah with the delivering message rather than waiting for one.
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Comment: "Thank you, I thought it would mean something like this, but I wasn't completely sure. And, yes, I'm working at Bruckner's book at the moment. "
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