Gargantuanly

gargantuanly English Etymology From en Gargantuan ly<id:adverbial>. Adverb en gargantuanly. en 1925 Marion Harvey A Friend in Need The House of Seclusion Boston, Mass. w:Small, Maynard & Company 71 https://archive.org/details/houseofseclusion00harv/page/71/mode/1up = “I haven’t the remotest idea.” / “Then how can you state so confidently that this painting is not a picture of his wife?” / “I can’t be positive, of course,” he returned irritably. “I know she wasn’t and that is good enough for me.” / Williams laughed, Gargantuanly good-humored. “You’re young, Mr. Norris, and you don’t like to think of youth mated with age. But it’s done quite often I assure you, and it was done in this case, too. Just look here. This is proof enough for me.” en 25 April 1926 Moods and Humors of the Sea Drawn by a Master Mariner: Captain Felix Riesenberg’s Threescore Vignettes Are Salty and Human Pictures of Sea Life w:The New York Times LXXV 24,928 New York, N.Y. w:The New York Times Company section 3 (The New York Times Book Review) 6 https://archive.org/details/sim_new-york-times_1926-04-25_75_24928/page/n59/mode/1up 4 0362-4331 1645522 No one, of course, can pass through life, however humdrum, and not be made aware of a great deal that is ludicrous; but if there is any place in the world where there is more of the egregiously funny to be met with than anywhere else it is on and beside the sea. The reason is apparent: the folk who do the hard work of the sea, the sailormen, are in their mental make-up so vastly more simple than the most simple of those who remain ashore that the contrasts engendered are Gargantuanly ludicrous. en 10 December 1928 China w:Briton Hadden; Henry Robinson Luce Time: The Weekly Newsmagazine XII 24 Chicago, Ill. Time, Inc. “Foreign News” section 26 https://archive.org/details/sim_time_1928-12-10_12_24/page/26/mode/1up 2 0040-781X 1311479 On his large feet Marshal Feng Yuxiang stands a full, massive six feet tall. He towered Gargantuanly, last week, during his address to slender, slant-eyed students of both sexes at the New Nationalist University in Nanking. en 1929 George Slocombe On Dining Out in Paris Paris in Profile Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y. Houghton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press chapter VIII (Paris of the Gourmands) 161 https://archive.org/details/bwb_O8-BXX-435/page/161/mode/1up 1510718 And there is that vast, comfortable urge to dine Gargantuanly on black, slippery, upholstered seats in old brown brasseries, and through a long evening, cloudy with smoke and argument, behind beer in beakers and mountains of redolent, satisfying Teutonic fare, to let life roll by in pageant after pageant like a Wagnerian opera, full of thunder and magic. en 1938 May Edward Elmer Smith Catastrophe! Astounding Science-Fiction XXI 3 New York, N.Y. Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 127 https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v21n03_1938-05_FireBellyFireBelly/page/n128/mode/1up 2 1429856 Tides of ever-increasing height and violence surged up and up, gripping not only the tens of thousands of miles of solar atmosphere and photosphere, but also clutching deeper and deeper into the very quasi-solid interior of the suns themselves. And, as the stupendous tides mounted, so increased the sun-quakes and volcanoes; the Gargantuanly rumbling warnings of that which was to come from below. en 1940 January Edward Elmer Smith Gray Lensman; Part IV: Conclusion Astounding Science-Fiction XXIV 5 New York, N.Y. Street & Smith Publications, Inc. 105 https://archive.org/details/Astounding_v24n05_1940-01_dtsg0318/page/n104/mode/1up 1 1429856 There came maulers; huge, ungainly flying fortresses of stupendous might. There came transports, bearing the commissariat and the service units. Vast freighters, under whose unimaginable mass the Gargantuanly braced and latticed and trussed docks yielded visibly and groaningly, crushed to a standstill and disgorged their varied cargoes. en 1946 May Don Eddy Ride, Rancheros, Ride! Holiday 1 3 Philadelphia, Pa. The Curtis Publishing Company 23 https://archive.org/details/sim_holiday_1946-05_1_3/page/23/mode/1up 1 0018-3520 1716092 These men and their hundred-odd guests gather at Santa Barbara from all around the nation on the first Sunday of May and ride together into the mountains for a week of uninhibited fun. They live vigorously, feast Gargantuanly, roister lustily, sing mightily, spin tall tales around their crackling fires at night. en 18 February 1965 Martin Vieweg I Was a Prophet Bruce Goyette Kampus Vue X 5 Fitchburg, Mass. Fitchburg State College 5 https://archive.org/details/kampusvue105fitc/page/5/mode/1up 3 10129088776 I had a calling . . . a genuine self-atrocity / Of supernatural impingement. / I was a dupe struck dumb with awful awareness, / Collared by the gods, set upon the world / To babble, babble, babble soulful ironies / And Gargantuanly swollen subtleties. en 1992 Richard Brown Beginnings James Joyce: A Post-Culturalist Perspective Macmillan Modern Novelists Basingstoke, Hampshire Macmillan Education Ltd chapter 3 (Ulysses) 65 https://archive.org/details/jamesjoycepostcu0000brow/page/65/mode/1up 0-333-41363-6 More and more extravagant and obscene material was being accumulated as if to subvert aesthetic notions of civility and decorum with new ideals of inclusive grotesquery and excess. The contemporary liberal critic Havelock Ellis proposed an etymology of the ‘obscene’ as meaning ‘off the scene’. In Ulysses what would normally be excluded is included, and what would normally be repressed is expressed, and in this sense the book might be defined as triumphantly and heroically – Gargantuanly – obscene. en 2007 Keith Williams Optical Speculations in the Early Writings: The Time Machine and the Short Stories H. G. Wells, Modernity and the Movies Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies Liverpool, Merseyside w:Liverpool University Press 32 https://archive.org/details/hgwellsmodernity0000will_n8j7/page/32/mode/1up 978-1-84631-060-7 Thus experience becomes literally ‘spectacularised’ by a paradoxical distance in bodily time while maintaining spatial proximity, again very like the perception of a film audience. As the narrator puts it, ‘the whole world had stopped for our convenient inspection’ (CSS The Complete Short Stories of H. G. Wells, pp. 493 and 496). Motion and gesture become defamiliarised, as in Eadweard Muybridge’s ‘animal locomotion studies’, Gargantuanly grotesque, as in screen-filling close-ups like George Albert Smith’s 1901 films, or ‘candid moments’: