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rock-a-bye
(redirected from rockaby)

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rock-a-bye also rock·a·bye or rock·a·by  (rk-b)
interj.
Used to lull an infant or child to sleep.
[rock + (lull)aby.]
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Hunter's finest moment comes in Rockaby, a monologue that unspools snapshots of a bleak and unsettling tale without ever offering anything as tangible as a plot.
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Five cookie flavors -- chubby wubby chocolate (the most popular), rockaby raspberry, pecan, coconut and macadamia nut -- are available -- and tasters loved them all, particularly the pecan and coconut.
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There is a grand guignol frisson in the moment of revelation at the end of Scene 8 where the dead Mag topples out of her rocking-chair; the futility of the murder is pointed in the last scene where Maureen, like the woman in Beckett's Rockaby, has already taken her mother's place in that same rocking-chair.
Ireland in two minds: Martin McDonagh and Conor McPherson by Grene, Nicholas / Yearbook of English Studies
 
 
 
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