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Mise-en-scene
Usage: Yet through all this the WACA’s folkloric character has endured. Even as the pitch was toned down, the mise-en-scene remained spectacular: the brilliant light beneath the expanse of the azure blue skies, lately complemented by the massed ranks of flaming orange for Big Bash League games, colour coding the crowd’s parochialism. Dictionary Definition
From: “WACA Ground So Much More Than The Sum Of Its Parts, Australian, November 04, 2016
Regnant
Usage: The emblematic athlete of the ensuing decade became Michael Jordan, reported to have recoiled when asked to endorse a black Democrat with the words: “Republicans buy sneakers too.” Sport’s “rebels” became those with colourful private lives, not those whose beliefs were at odds with the regnant culture.
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From: “Russia’s Olympic crisis lays bare a prevailing political apathy in sport” Guardian July 20, 2016
Truckled
Usage: You really need to get caught in the act so egregiously that the professional Pontius Pilates of Olympism can’t continue ignoring it – and even then, there is no certainty of their acting. After all, the movement has truckled to tyrants since its inception, with the justification that it sits at an Olympian remove from politics.
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From: “Russia's Olympic crisis lays bare a prevailing political apathy in sport” Guardian July 20, 2016
agonistes
agonistes
Usage:
Did he fall? Would he have been pushed? Does it matter? Whatever the case, it’s surely better for all concerned that Michael Clarke agonistes is over.
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/sport/opinion/ashes-2015-message-in-michael-clarkes-retirement/story-fnb58rpk-1227475900171
Rescissions
Usage: That included, too, all the Australians who converged on the IPL every year, basking in its riches, and who will be full of hope of a big payday at IPL auction time in a couple of weeks. Good luck to them, of course, except that those acquired by CSK and the Royals might harbour a few reservations about their futures, given possible changes of control, potential fines and perhaps even rescissions of franchise agreements — still matters for determination.
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From: "BCCI elections to shape future of cricket" The Australian, January 24, 2015
Manque
Usage: In assuming the captaincy three weeks ago, Smith promised he had “no intention of changing any plans of anything”. Perhaps he was having a bit of a lend: turns out that he is not a Michael Clarke manque but his own man.
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From: "Steve Smith shows he is no Michael Clarke clone" Australian December 31, 2014.
Virtual Colloquy
Usage: The ECB then apparently forced KP to lie when he attended a reconciliation meeting with his manager Adam Wheatley around the time it was also rumoured that he had been in virtual colloquy with his South African countrymen during the series.
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Plantocracy
Usage: It was an era when the territories were still under British rule and cricket, like other institutions, was managed and controlled by the plantocracy and the ruling “white” class.
Wikipedia Entry for Plantocracy
From: "West Indies Cricket: An Explainer" Cuts & Glances November 7, 2014
Mise-en-scène
Usage: So here we are again. Or at least some of us are, and given that summer is sort of wherever the Australian team is, the mise-en-scene does not seem quite complete, which inspired my column today.
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From: "Happy Birthday Craig Serjeant" Cuts & Glances Blog, November 1, 2014.
Disported
Usage: Interestingly, Srinivasan has shown a cognisance of appearances - he does not attend CSK games himself.
But an impact of this seems to have been to magnify the influence at CSK of the ebullient Meiyappan, who disported himself as “team principal”, becoming in effect Srini’s proxy.
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From: "CA backs the wrong man as cricket faces its sternest test" The Australian, March 29 2014
Millinery
Usage: You’d never come up with a baggy green now. Green is a fashion no-no, to be dealt with warily. And the bagginess is a vestige of the 1920s in which the cap was regularised, when male millinery was roomier, even in sport, to accommodate oiled and macassared hair – just as well for Watto, really.
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From: "If the cap fits" Cuts and Glances Blog, February 25, 2014
Nugatory
Usage: Here's a suggestion so obvious, simple and self-evidently beneficial that I make in the safe and sure knowledge that it will never happen: what are now the two seats on the executive committee to keep the big three company should be occupied not by a couple of nincompoops sent along from the now nugatory board but ... yes ... yer actual independents.
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From: "Few Tears will be shed over the ICC's Demise" The Australian, February 1, 2014
Autarkies
Usage: But what this report appears to envision is a bunch of free-standing autarkies – ‘self-sufficient with sustainable investment and growth in their domestic markets’. The fact that only one nation is even really close to that, and two others might struggle by if they were able to play each other every day, which they almost do already, seems to have eluded the authors. These are sentiments with all the superficial appeal of the philosophies of Ayn Rand, and they leave a similarly noxious aftertaste.
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From: "Eyes only, Burn after reading" Cuts & Glances Blog, January 19, 2014
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Recrudescence
Usage: The BCCI's hypocrisy is more brazen still, in that 20 years ago they argued, cogently and progressively, against the veto enjoyed by England and Australia at ICC. Now they've led the way to a recrudescence of cricket's old authoritarianism, with themselves leading the junta.
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From: "Might is right in the Big Three's grand new world order of cricket" The Australian, January 25, 2014
Otiose
Usage: So if the Ashes have reached an otiose stage for onlookers, imagine how it feels to have been directly involved. I suspect some of the distemper evident during this half of the cycle is to do with the players after six months being sick of the sight of each other.
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From: "Ten-Test urn-o-max a nice earner, but a killer" The Australian, December 30, 2013
Adhocracy
Usage: Pietersen was mistaken in thinking that he and his teammates had undertaken something that had "never been done before": 10 Ashes Tests in a row occurred in 1901-02, when touring was a private adhocracy, and in 1920-21, when fans were ravening for cricket after a nine-year hiatus prolonged by World War I. But life was simpler then: there were only three Test nations and South Africa barely counted.
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From: "Ten-Test urn-o-max a nice earner, but a killer" The Australian, December 30, 2013
Bowdlerise
Usage: But in this sanitised, bowdlerised and amply protected high-performance age, direct reminders of cricket's corporeal reality are few. The physical is narrated to us mainly by reports of injury, spare and technical.
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From: "Dot-ball challenge to an age of strike-rate addicted batsmen" The Australian, December 28, 2013