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Word of the Day for Thursday, August 27, 2009saturnine \SAT-uhr-nyn\, adjective: 1. Born under or being under the astrological influence of the planet Saturn. His saturnine spirit appealed to younger bohemians who were anxious to make idols of an earlier generation's tormented souls, but even so, it cannot have been easy for Rothko always to be the pessimist among the optimists. A saturnine prison guard sits and broods -- and every now and then, gets up and shoots an unseen prisoner. This captures perfectly the tone of his writing: saturnine, droll, with a fascinating, deliberate bureaucratic dowdiness. Saturnine comes from Saturn, in Medieval times believed to be the most remote planet from the Sun and thus coldest and slowest in its revolution. | |||||||||
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