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Context around Shevek

  • Average sentence length in these examples: 25.5 words
  • Position in the sentence: 4 start, 4 middle, 2 end
  • Sentence types: 10 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations

Often before:

exists 1× protagonist 1× contact 1× understanding 1×

Often after:

near 1× comes 1× begins 1×

Sentence patterns with Shevek

These short patterns come directly from the example sentences and show how the word is often embedded:

consensus understanding shevek begins to 1× eventually contact shevek with a 1× happens with shevek s childhood 1× meaning of shevek s theories 1× other and shevek does hard 1× reproduction of shevek s theory 1× revolution as shevek comes to 1× said by shevek near the 1×

Sentence openings and endings

Common sentence openings:

an odonian orthodoxy 1× bureaucracy stagnation and 1× for example there 1× said by shevek 1× shevek and takver 1× shevek s work 1×

Common sentence endings:

childhood friend tirin 1× general temporal theory 1× government s hospitality 1× is the key 1× of the novel 1× shevek s theory 1×

Words around Shevek

Just before it in the word index:

shevchenko 43 shevat 9 shevardnadze 12 shevach 5 sheva 34 shev 3

Just after it in the word index:

shevell 2 shevelove 3 shevington 2 shevlin 7 shevoroshkin 6 shevrin 7

Similar in corpus frequency:

aab 13 aamer 13 aave 13 abdelmadjid 13 abdulkarim 13 abdulsalami 13

Corpus analysis for Shevek

  • In this selection, "shevek" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 25.5 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
  • Around the word, exists, protagonist, contact, near, comes and begins stand out and add context to how "shevek" is used.
  • Recognizable usage signals include consensus understanding shevek begins to and eventually contact shevek with a. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
  • By corpus frequency, "shevek" sits close to words such as aab, aamer and aave, which helps place it inside the broader word index.

Example types with shevek

The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:

Short example sentences

The protagonist Shevek is a physicist attempting to develop a General Temporal Theory. (13 words)

Bureaucracy, stagnation, and power structures have problematized the revolution, as Shevek comes to realize throughout the course of the novel. (20 words)

For example, there have been interpretations that the non-linear nature of the novel is a reproduction of Shevek's theory. (21 words)

Longer example sentences

Shevek and Takver, as good Odonians, take work postings away from each other, and Shevek does hard agricultural labor in a dusty desert instead of working on his research, because he is needed there due to a famine. (38 words)

There are still some Odonians in A-Io, who eventually contact Shevek with a note chiding him for betraying his beliefs by working at the university and accepting the government's hospitality. (32 words)

An Odonian orthodoxy prevails without any overt enforcement or oppression, although free thinkers who go too far can end up in psychiatric institutions, as happens with Shevek's childhood friend, Tirin. (31 words)

Example sentences (10)

Said by Shevek near the end of Chapter 13 The meaning of Shevek's theories—which deal with the nature of time and simultaneity—have been subject to interpretation.

Shevek and Takver, as good Odonians, take work postings away from each other, and Shevek does hard agricultural labor in a dusty desert instead of working on his research, because he is needed there due to a famine.

An Odonian orthodoxy prevails without any overt enforcement or oppression, although free thinkers who go too far can end up in psychiatric institutions, as happens with Shevek's childhood friend, Tirin.

Bureaucracy, stagnation, and power structures have problematized the revolution, as Shevek comes to realize throughout the course of the novel.

For example, there have been interpretations that the non-linear nature of the novel is a reproduction of Shevek's theory.

Shevek's work made the ansible possible - it is mentioned in his tale that engineers decided they could build it once the correct theory was found.

The idea of an ansible is known but none yet exists: Shevek's new physics may be - in fact, eventually is - the key.

The protagonist Shevek is a physicist attempting to develop a General Temporal Theory.

There are still some Odonians in A-Io, who eventually contact Shevek with a note chiding him for betraying his beliefs by working at the university and accepting the government's hospitality.

Yet in pursuing research that deviates from his society's current consensus understanding, Shevek begins to come up against very real obstacles.

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