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Indelibility

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in·del·i·ble  (n-dl-bl)
adj.
1. Impossible to remove, erase, or wash away; permanent: indelible ink.
2. Making a mark not easily erased or washed away: an indelible pen for labeling clothing.
3. Unable to be forgotten; memorable: an indelible memory.

[Alteration of earlier indeleble, from Latin indlbilis : in-, not; see in-1 + dlbilis, capable of being effaced (from dlre, to wipe out).]

in·deli·bili·ty, in·deli·ble·ness n.
in·deli·bly adv.


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If and when justice has been obtained - for all Lebanese - those words will have acquired a practical permanence to match their symbolic indelibility.
Callaghan's earlier cited insistence that beneath the racial dressing up onstage in Titus it is white actors appropriating black lives is suggestive not only of the indelibility of whiteness (and of the early capitalist politics of mimesis, which fetishizes and commodifies both the ethnic and the sexual real for commercial gain, so that the blackfaced but white Shakespearean Aaron's claim that "black is better .
 
 
 
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