aquiline. adj. 1. (Anatomy) (of a nose) having the curved or hooked shape of an eagle's beak. 2. (Zoology) of or resembling an eagle. [C17: from Latin aquilÄ«nus, from aquila eagle].he had not long to wait before the punctual attorney entered, knitting his brow with an examining glance at the stout blond woman who rose, curtsying deferentially,--a tallish man, with an aquiline nose and abundant iron-gray hair.
, I love music, any kind of music... 1  A Spanish-language blog for Deep Purple fans has apparently dug up an article in a Swiss newspaper where the suspect in the 1971 Montreux Casino fire (a.k.a. stupid with a flare gun) was identified. The suspect, pictured in the 1971 article, was a Czech refugee by the name of Zdenek Spicka who lived in Ãpalinges, Switzerland.
A useful idiot is someone who, while zealously promoting one cause, ends up advancing a very different one through stupidity, naivete or inattention. The useful idiot never sees the big picture. Vladimir Lenin, the first Soviet dictator, is credited with coining the phrase, although according to P. Boller and J. Georges They Never Said It, hewellmost likely never said it. Not even in Russian. Whatever its origins, the phrase sometimes comes in handy. My first two experiences with radical feminists in academia didnt make much of an impact on me until later. The first was in Fall 1987 at Clemson University in Clemson, South Carolina.