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Kawaii. Kawaii ( Japanese: かわいい or 可愛い, IPA: [kawaiꜜi]; 'lovely', 'loveable', 'cute', or 'adorable') [1] is the culture of cuteness in Japan. [2] [3] [4] It can refer to items, humans, and non-humans that are charming, vulnerable, shy, and childlike. [2]
Flair bartending is the practice of bartenders entertaining guests, clientele or audiences with the manipulation of bar tools (e.g. cocktail shakers) and liquor bottles in tricky, dazzling ways. Used occasionally in cocktail bars, the action requires skills commonly associated with jugglers .
The term "chimera" has come to describe any mythical or fictional creature with parts taken from various animals, to describe anything composed of disparate parts or perceived as wildly imaginative, implausible, or dazzling. In other words, a chimera can be any hybrid creature.
The Design of Everyday Things is a best-selling book by cognitive scientist and usability engineer Donald Norman about how design serves as the communication between object and user, and how to optimize that conduit of communication in order to make the experience of using the object pleasurable. One of the main premises of the book is that ...
A child prodigy is a person under the age of ten who produces meaningful work in some domain at the level of an adult expert. [1] [2] [3] The term is also applied more broadly to describe young people who are extraordinarily talented in some field. [4]
In literary criticism and rhetoric, a tautology is a statement that repeats an idea, using near-synonymous morphemes, words or phrases, effectively "saying the same thing twice". Tautology and pleonasm are not consistently differentiated in literature. Like pleonasm, tautology is often considered a fault of style when unintentional.
In Search of the Most Amazing Thing is a video game designed by Tom Snyder Productions and published by Spinnaker Software in 1983. Although marketed as a children's game, it drew acclaim from players of all ages for its original concept and imaginative game world.
The Signature of All Things is a novel by Elizabeth Gilbert. It was originally published in 2013 and longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction.
The Book of Everlasting Things is a novel by Aanchal Malhotra which was published on December 27, 2022 by Flatiron Books. It is the first fiction novel by her.
The Natural Way of Things (2015) is a novel by Australian writer Charlotte Wood. It won the Stella Prize, for writing by Australian women, in 2016.