17 June 2019

• Rebarbative: Unattractive; objectionable
• These essays are much denser than her prose fiction, although not rebarbatively so. (Bidisha).
• Auteur: A film director who influences their films so much that they rank as their author.
• Kapur still has a reputation as a great auteur; Devi was pursued through the courts and assassinated in 2001.(Bidisha).
• Posse: A group of people who have a common characteristic or occupation.  
• In the 1970s, Whyte and the posse of young volunteers set out to determine how the design of the city-in particular, New York City-worked or failed to work for urban dwellers. (Alexandra Horowitz in On Looking pg 140). 
• The terrifying aura of his renown and competence are with him even when he is without his posse of house surgeons and head nurses. (Bapsi Sidhwa in Ice-Candy Man, pg 4). (24 Nov 2020).