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grammaire anglaise > conjonctions > though > sens, valeurs et syntaxe

 

sens > relativiser, pointer une contradiction,

prendre conscience,

revenir sur un déjà-dit,

un a priori, un présupposé, une affirmation

pour le / la contredire, nuancer, développer

 

 

sens : différence avec but

 

 

 

thoughconjonction > syntaxe

 

SVO + thoughconjonction + SVO

 

Les 2 propositions (SVO)

reliées par though

peuvent être séparées

par un point

et même par un alinéa :

 

That kind of hedging

is more typical of Al Qaeda,

which has called on its fighters

to avoid operations

that would cause mass casualties

among Muslim civilians.

 

In reality, thoughconjonction [ mais / pourtant ],

Al Qaeda, like ISIS,

continues to kill

large numbers of Muslims in its attacks.

Butconjonction [ mais ]

that has not stopped the two groups

from arguing about it.

Appealing to Its Base, ISIS Tempers Its Violence in Muslim Countries,
NYT,
July 2, 2016,
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/
world/middleeast/isis-muslim-countries-bangladesh.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

thoughconjonction> syntaxe

 

thoughconjonction + ellipse du sujet et du verbe + adjectif

 

The lander, thoughconjonction small,

 

[ même si il est de petite taille /

quoique de petite taille

 

énoncé théorique : it is small ],

 

(about a yard wide

when folded for travel through space),

is loaded with sensors, cameras,

test chambers, a microscope,

a rock grinder and a sampling arm

that in theory can dig down five feet

into the Martian soil.

Three Spaceships Heading on Journeys to Mars, NYT,
May 27, 2003,
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/
science/soon-three-new-travelers-to-mars.html

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NYPD Said Killing of Kawaski Trawick Appeared “Justified.” Video Shows Officers Escalated Situation.        Screenshot        ProPublica        4 December 2020        Warning: graphic

 

Footage shows the killing of the 32-year-old Black man in his home by a white officer

— over the objections of his Black, more-experienced partner.

Both officers are still on duty.

YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vA2M5aOlX_4

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appealing to Its Base,

ISIS Tempers Its Violence

in Muslim Countries

 

JULY 2, 2016

The New York Times

By RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

 

The first to be killed was a jogger, gunned down last September during his daily run in the leafy diplomatic quarter of Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka. He was identified as a 50-year-old Italian aid worker, and the police say the men who murdered him had been given instructions to kill a white foreigner at random.

In October, a Japanese man was killed. In November, gunmen riding a motorcycle pulled alongside a Catholic priest in northern Bangladesh and opened fire, wounding him.

For the Islamic State terrorist group, which broadly advised operatives it sent to Europe to kill “anyone and everyone,” the group’s tactics in Bangladesh have seemed more controlled. In the past nine months, it has claimed 19 attacks in the South Asian country, nearly all of them targeted assassinations singling out religious minorities and foreigners. They included hacking to death a Hindu man, stabbing to death a Shiite preacher, murdering a Muslim villager who had been accused of converting to Christianity and sending suicide bombers into Shiite mosques.

For years, the Islamic State, also known as ISIS and ISIL, has pursued a campaign of wholesale slaughter in Syria and Iraq. And in the attacks the group has directed or indirectly inspired in Western countries — including the coordinated killings in Paris and Brussels and the mass shooting inside an Orlando, Fla., nightclub — the assailants killed at random.

But a closer look at the attack the Islamic State has claimed in Bangladesh — and at the fact that it has not claimed bombings attributed to it in Turkey, including the airport attack this past week — suggests a group that is tailoring its approach for different regions and for different target audiences.

“For I.S. to maintain support among its followers and prospects, it must take different considerations into account when planning an attack in a Muslim country versus non-Muslim countries,” argues Rita Katz, the director of the SITE Intelligence Group, which has tracked the group’s attacks in Bangladesh. “I.S. encourages the killing of random civilians in France, Belgium, America or other Western nations, but in a country like Turkey, I.S. must be sure that it isn’t killing Muslims — or at least make it look like it’s trying not to,” she wrote in an analysis recently published online.

The issue of killing Sunni civilians has been a main point of contention with Al Qaeda after the Islamic State broke away from the terror network several years ago. And it surfaced again in the past week.

After the triple suicide bombing at the Istanbul airport on Tuesday, a Qaeda official used Twitter to issue a stinging rebuke of the attack blamed on ISIS. “The Turkish people are Muslims, & their blood is sacred. A true mujahid would give his life up for them, not massacre them #IstanbulAttack,” wrote Abu Sulayman al-Muhajir, who has been described as an Australian member of Al Qaeda’s branch in Syria, according to a transcript provided by SITE.

The Islamic State’s uncharacteristic silence about the attacks in Turkey, when it tends to quickly claim bombings elsewhere, reflects the balancing act the terror group must undertake when carrying out violence in predominantly Muslim nations, analysts say.

Ms. Katz said the Islamic State “has shown comparable discretion when conducting attacks in other Muslim countries, focusing on government targets, perceived religious deviants and enemy factions, as opposed to random civilians.”

For example, when the terror group last month claimed its first bombing in Jordan, it made sure to identify its target as an American-Jordanian military base. In May, the Islamic State carried out a bombing on a Shiite mosque in Sunni-dominated Saudi Arabia. And in January, when it struck in Jakarta, Indonesia, the group took pains to frame the attack as one against tourists, not locals, Ms. Katz wrote.

That kind of hedging is more typical of Al Qaeda,
which has called on its fighters to avoid operations
that would cause mass casualties among Muslim civilians
.

In reality, though
conjonction [ mais / pourtant ], Al Qaeda, like ISIS, continues to kill large numbers of Muslims in its attacks. But that has not stopped the two groups from arguing about it.

Appealing to Its Base, ISIS Tempers Its Violence in Muslim Countries,
NYT,
July 2, 2016,
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/
world/middleeast/isis-muslim-countries-bangladesh.html

 

 

 

 

 

In the new movie Youth,

an elderly, retired composer-conductor is called upon

to conduct for the first time in years.

He's an Englishman named Fred Ballinger

— and the request is from Queen Elizabeth II.

It seems Ballinger's composition Simple Songs,

written when he was a much younger man,

is the only thing the Queen's husband, Prince Phillip,

will listen to.

That premise necessarily makes a few demands of the film.

Someone had to play Ballinger convincingly,

which Michael Caine does.

More importantly, thoughconjonction [ mais ],

someone had to compose a piece of music

that could plausibly account for Prince Phillip's fictitious fondness,

and for Ballinger's fictitious fame.

That job was handed to David Lang.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning composer spoke with NPR's Robert Siegel

about the curious task of writing music fit for royalty,

from the perspective of an artist well past his glory days.

Hear their conversation at the audio link,

and read an edited version below.

'We Use Music To Understand Where We Are': David Lang On The Music Of 'Youth'
Updated December 4, 2015
9:27 PM ET,
http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2015/12/04/
458372792/we-use-music-to-understand-where-we-are-david-lang-on-the-music-of-youth

 

 

 

 

 

In the years since I’d done this simple act in church,

I have prayed at home and in hospital waiting rooms.

I have prayed for my daughter to live,

for the bad news to not be true,

for strength in the face of adversity.

I have prayed with more desperation than a person should feel.

I have prayed in vain.

This prayer, thoughconjonction [ mais ], was different.

It was a prayer from my girlhood,

a prayer for peace and comfort and guidance.

It was a prayer of gratitude.

It was a prayer that needed to be done in church,

in a place where candles flicker and statues of saints

look down from on high;

where sometimes, out of nowhere,

the spiritually confused can still come inside

and kneel and feel their words might rise up and be heard.

A Prayer at Christmas, NYT, 24.12.2012,

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/opinion/a-prayer-at-christmas.html

 

 

 

 

 

The draughtsman uses an optical device constructed as a frame.

Recent publications by David Hockney have suggested that artists

after and during the Renaissance resorted

to all sorts of optical equipment

in order to improve the artificiality of their medium.

The notion of the frame as a filmic device,

and also as a drawing device,

is related very significantly to the notion of a frame-up.

Thoughconjonction [ alors que ]

we imagine the draughtsman rules the roost and governs the action,

he's in fact slowly, scene by scene, being framed.

Soconjonction the notion of the subject matter of the film

- to frame somebody, that is, to put them up

as a victim of a conspiracy of some description -

is also relative to the way the film itself is very self-consciously framed.

The form and the content should ideally be brought closely together.

Murder he drew:
The Draughtsman's Contract, about killings in a country house, is famous for being utterly baffling.
It's perfectly simple, says director Peter Greenaway. It's all about the colour green - and wigs,
G/G2,
p. 8,
1.8.2003.

 

 

 

 

 

Thoughconjonction [ bien que ] Mars has long intrigued humans,

especially those who dream of extraterrestrial life,

it has repeatedly humbled anyone rich and venturesome enough

to send metallic proxies across millions of miles of space

to try to learn its secrets.

(...)

The lander, thoughconjonction small,

[ même si il est de petite taille / quoique de petite taille ],

(about a yard wide when folded for travel through space),

is loaded with sensors, cameras, test chambers, a microscope,

a rock grinder and a sampling arm

that in theory can dig down five feet into the Martian soil.

Three Spaceships Heading on Journeys to Mars, NYT,
May 27, 2003,
https://www.nytimes.com/2003/05/27/
science/soon-three-new-travelers-to-mars.html

Première occurrence : début de l'article.

 

 

 

 

 

Mr Arafat warned the Palestinian "forces"

-fighters belonging mainly to his Fatah faction

and to the Islamist Hamas and Islamic Jihad movements-

not to give "pretexts" that would aid Mr Sharon's designs.

They heeded his counsel, partiallyadverbe.

Thoughconjonction [ alors querhétorique / argumentatif ]

they agreed to end attacks on civilians in Israel

and firing on Jewish settlements from Palestinian-controlled areas,

they did not agree to end armed actions

in defence of Palestinians towns and villages still under occupation.

The beginning of the end of the Palestinian uprising?, E, p. 49, 29.9.2001.

 

 

 

 

 

All we see is the pain Szpilman feels as he hides in an apartment

where he must stay perfectly silent

- even thoughconjonction [ alors même que ]

there is a piano in the room.

His desire, his need, to play is etched on Brody's face.

Later, thoughconjonction [ bien que ] starving and emaciated,

[ ellipse de he is  > énoncé théorique : he is starving and emaciated ]

he plays at last.

Visions of Hell, GE2/Review, p. IV, 10.1.2003.

 

 

 

 

 

She was a popular actress in both silent films and talkies,

thoughconjonction [ même si, valeur : relativisation ]

she never attained the heights of such stars

as Mary Pickford or Clara Bow.

Mary Brian:
Popular actress typecast as the 'Perpetual Ingénue',
I, p. 14, 7.1.2003.

 

 

 

 

 

Dans ce paragraphe,

les 2 propositions sont séparées par une phrase :

 

It doesn't seem a very substantial way to start a long day

- after this interview to promote her first album since 1998, C'mon C'mon,

she is taping Parkinson and MTV - but she insists

that she's just finished a "huge" breakfast.

What Crow unexpectedly radiates is old-fashioned star quality,

and when you're caught in its glare on a shared sofa,

it's easy to appreciate

how she managed to land her first professional gig,

as a backing singer on Michael Jackson's Bad tour,

by gatecrashing a Los Angeles audition.

A&M Records were struck by her, too,

deciding she was worth keeping on

even after her "over-produced" first attempt

at a solo album was shelved at a cost of $450,000.

Unfortunately, thoughconjonction [ mais ],

the aura that draws all eyes to her

[ GN complexe sujet de is ],

as she clinks her teacup back

on to the saucer in a swanky hotel,

is absent from her music.

‘I worry about how these girls are sexualised at such a young age’,
GE/G2,
p. IV,
29-3-2002,
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2002/mar/29/
shopping.artsfeatures1

 

 

 

 

 

His own home is guarded by electronic gates.

An old house, it is decorated in a modern style

with wooden laminate floors

and iron-framed glass-topped dining table.

The back garden, thoughconjonction [ mais ], is the real gem.

Plumber gets his fingers burnt, GE, p. 16, 23-3-2002.

 

 

 

 

 

Victim of a male-created sex industry thoughconjonction she was,

[ = même si / malgré le fait que / en dépit du fait que / bien que ]

Lovelace co-operated in the imposture

of being a sexually liberated woman,

to a public willing, for the time, to be gullible.

Linda Lovelace obituary, T, p. 33, 24-4-2002.

 

 

 

 

 

Thoughconjonction [ = même si ] her office was yesterday insisting

that Lady Thatcher was « desperate »

to fulfil her public commitments

– including promoting her new book, Statecraft –

and would consider whetherconjonction she could attend signings

and literary festivals as planned,

aides said she would do « exactly what the doctor orders ».

The lady is not for talking : Ill health forces Thatcher out of public life,
GE, p. 1, 23-3-2002
[début de §].

 

 

 

 

 

Thoughconjonction [ même si ]

workers managed to restore some electricity lines yesterday,

during the half-hour time-out in Mr Arafat’s quarantine,

the lights died down four times.

Hungry, thirsty, but Arafat taunts Israel from remains of his empire,
GE, p. 3,
1.4.2002
[début de §]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

even though > "même si" > hypothèse probable

 

Trump's Border Wall Builders Carry On

Even Though Projects May Never Be Completed

November 16, 2020    11:33 AM ET    NPR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

even though > "alors même que" > contraste

 

 

All we see is the pain Szpilman feels as he hides in an apartment

where he must stay perfectly silent

- even thoughconjonction [ alors même que ]

there is a piano in the room.

His desire, his need, to play is etched on Brody's face.

Later, thoughconjonction [ bien que ] starving and emaciated,

[ ellipse de he is  > énoncé théorique : he is starving and emaciated ]

he plays at last.

Visions of Hell, GE2/Review, p. IV, 10.1.2003.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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