Rustication


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Rustication

Masonry cut in large blocks with the surface left rough and unfinished, separated by deep recessed joints. The border of each block may be beveled or rabbeted on all four sides or top and bottom. It is used mainly on the lower part of a structure to give a bold, exaggerated took of strength.
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rustication

rustication
Same as rustic work.
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The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Rustication

in architecture, the facing of a building with crudely cut or convex stones. Enlivening the wall with a rich play of light and shadow, rustication gives a building a sense of massive strength. In a plastered facade, rustication is simulated by dividing the wall into rectangles or stripes.

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The university, therefore, has to realise that it has not done any positive thing for its own standing as a repository of knowledge with the rustication decision and should seek to immediately reverse itself in order to repair and restore its image.
In addition, it is common knowledge that incidents of academic dishonesty are increasing leading to cancellation of examinations and rustication of students involved in examination malpractices.
Exposition of the Ottomans' methods of rule provided oblique criticism of the Hoxha government, and offered an artistic parallel to the analysis of communist practices, such as murder, censorship, rustication, and the erosion of authenticity and intimacy in daily life, in Kadare's other works over several decades.
But Wallace can only make Waugh represent that position by failing to read Waugh's self-irony, the narrator's critique of paralysis and sloth and of the failed Englishman's sense of rustication to the tropics; far from "honor [ing] white otium" (279) to this reader's ear for irony, Waugh mocks it.
(2) 'Milton in Rustication', Studies in Philology, 19 (1922), 109-35 (p.
The ironic interplay between existent and non-existent motives or causes is augmented by the Sierra Morena itself as a setting, as a place to expiate real and imaginary guilt--a site for literal rustication.
The speaker is not in Georgian rustication but in a city flat with a cat that is unnaturally bored by birds, and that has suffered so dark a night of the soul that nature's bounty can give "no relief" to the weight of Time and Nothingness.
From his boyhood at Rudolph Steiner and the Little Red School House; to his undergraduate career at Swarthmore College; to Yale Law days and the satire magazine Monocle; to the New York Times and books on the Hollywood witch-hunt and Robert Kennedy's Department of Justice; to his annunciation almost three decades ago as chief pooh-bah of a radical weekly that has lost money ever since the Civil War and his latter-day rustication at Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism--Navasky knows everybody.
Noticing that the hefty Suzanne had gained even more weight during her wartime rustication in the Pyrenees, Mme.
The rustication forms a romantic foil to the building's essentially rational spirit of lucid geometry, muted colour and calm, luminous spaces.
Emphatic rustication on key areas declared not only that the convent was a citadel well protected from external temptations, but also referenced the rhetorical fortifications of patrician palaces, which, Gerard Labrot has argued, were designed to clearly demarcate the palace from the street, the noble from the common people.
Robustness was not an essential ingredient, although the Man of Letters frequently lived to rustication and ripe old age.