EXCLAMATION MARK
Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language
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EXCLAMATION MARK, also AmE exclamation point. The
PUNCTUATION MARK (!). Its primary use is to show that a preceding word, phrase, or sentence is an
EXCLAMATION or strong assertion:
Of course!;
No!;
I won't do it!;
Yes,
you are! It indicates various emotions conveyed in the substance of the statement, such as surprise, disbelief, or dismay (
You're joking!;
What a silly way to behave!), wonder or admiration (
What a good idea!;
Aren't they beautiful!), personal feeling (
I love you!;
I hate them!); and pain or suffering (
Ouch!;
I'm so miserable!). It also indicates an instruction or command (
Go away!;
Left turn!). It is sometimes repeated in informal usage to express a specially strong exclamation (
What nonsense!!) or added to a question mark to indicate a mixture of questioning and surprise, anger, etc. (
Did you say the house was tidy?!). It is also used in round brackets/parentheses, as a kind of aside, to denote surprise or reserve about, or dissent from, what is stated:
They told us about the beauty(!) of the place.
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Saarinen House. (Eliel and Loja Saarinen's house at Cranbrook Academy of Art) (Cover Story)
Magazine article from: Interior Design; 12/1/1994; ; 700+ words
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Restoring Eliel Saarinen's Home
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 1/6/1994; ; 700+ words
; Everywhere you look in the Saarinen House, subtle harmonies of color...is a soothing, peaceful haven. Saarinen House is undergoing meticulous restoration...outside of Detroit. It is named for Eliel Saarinen, the academy's first president...
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Winifred Lutz. (At Cranbrook, the sculptor's site-integrated work transforms three of Eliel Saarinen's gallery pieces.) (Floor to Ceiling/Surface to Edge/Vista, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI)
Magazine article from: Interior Design; 9/1/1992; ; 700+ words
; ...museum/library/portico complex that was designed by Eliel Saarinen in 1942 and that has dominated the Cranbrook campus...terra-cotta and green--are reportedly based on Saarinen's own early work as a landscape painter and on Lutz...
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HELSINKI THE ART AND ARCHITECTURE OF FINLAND'S CAPITAL IS BOTH MIXED AND MEMORABLE TAKE THE RAILROAD STATION DESIGNED BY ELIEL SAARINEN: THE STRUCTURE HAS BECOME A GRAND CITY LANDMARK
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/24/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...blue now serves as City Hall. A later, and home-grown, architect gave the city one of its greatest landmarks. Eliel Saarinen, with his partners Herman Gesellius and Armas Lindgren, designed the central railroad station that was completed...
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Saarinen Exhibit Explores the Building Of a Modern Campus at Drake
News Wire article from: Targeted News Service; 11/3/2008; 700+ words
; ...light on how those designs by Eliel Saarinen and his son, Eero, reflected...Building a Modern Campus: Eliel and Eero Saarinen at Drake University" opened...practical and efficient." Eliel Saarinen became the first internationally...
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Saarinen House.
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 5/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...American architect Eliel Saarinen, life and art were inextricably...currents in America.(2) Saarinen's most thoroughly conceived...the United States is Saarinen House, the house and...1932 until 1946. While Eliel was responsible for the...
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SAARINEN RISING A MUCH-MALIGNED MODERNIST FINALLY GETS HIS DUE
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 11/7/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...outside the architectural inner circle, has Saarinen become so popular? . . . Though short, Saarinen's career trajectory was the stuff of...innovative weaver while his father, architect Eliel Saarinen, directed the Cranbrook Academy of Art...
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Eero Saarinen papers donated to Yale Library.
M2 Presswire; 10/30/2002; 700+ words
; ...what Eero would have wished." Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the...Born in Kirkkonummi, Finland, Saarinen emigrated to the United States...with his father, the architect Eliel Saarinen, where he remained until his father...
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Saarinen Developed a New Architectural Vocabulary for Each of His Projects
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 9/18/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...best-known works of architecture, designed in the 1950s by Eero Saarinen, son of acclaimed Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen. But what you may not know is that Eero Saarinen, unlike many notable modern architects, did not develop nor relentlessly...
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Strong Finnish; Eero Saarinen finally gets his due at the National Building Museum.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ARCHITECTURE)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 5/3/2008; 700+ words
; ...of modern architecture." Mr. Saarinen expanded their vocabulary by embracing...Mexico and Egypt show that Mr. Saarinen's passion for architecture developed at an early age. His father, Eliel Saarinen, was a famous architect in Finland...
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Eliel and Eero Saarinen
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Eliel and Eero Saarinen Eliel (1873-1950) and Eero (1910...techniques for his eclectic works. Eliel Saarinen was one of a small band of architects...the architect as a "form giver." Eliel Saarinen Eliel was born in Rantasalmi on Aug...
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Eliel Saarinen
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Eliel Saarinen , 1873-1950, Finnish-American architect...of the United States after 1923. In Finland, Saarinen's most celebrated building was the railway...were made in collaboration with his son, Eero Saarinen .
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Saarinen, Gottlieb Eliel
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Saarinen, Gottlieb Eliel (1873–1950). Finnish...The firm was joined by his son, Eero Saarinen , in 1937, and then by J. Robert...arched buildings of H. H. Richardson . Saarinen, Gesellius, and Lindgren designed...
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Lindgren, Armas Eliel
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Lindgren, Armas Eliel (1874–1929). Finnish architect, he formed a partnership with Herman Gesellius and Eliel Saarinen . The firm's work was eclectic, drawing on Arts-and-Crafts...
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Saarinen, Eero 1910-1961
Book article from: American Decades
SAARINEN, EERO 1910-1961 Architect and furniture designer...Architects Born in Kirkkunummi, Finland, in 1910, Eero Saarinen was the youngest child of the famous architect Eliel Saarinen, who explained that his son was "born practically...
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