The last gasp of sharp high-low distinctions was the 1930's.
They made big claims, and those claims prepared the ground for their own epochal films, which went even further to sweep away the high-low distinctions.
The same high-low distinction held for climate change; some countries had contributed a great deal to the problem, others very little.
This high-low distinction is evident in urban safety, where the police are in charge of "keeping the peace" (治安, zhì'ān) while employees of "city management" (城管, chéngguǎn) beat street vendors and migrant workers.
Like everyone else nowadays, Wolcott has no use for the old high-low cultural distinctions.
This brand of performance, which aggressively blurs genres and makes high-low culture distinctions obsolete, is not so rare these days.
By contrast, poetry in Japanese is distinguished from prose mainly in that it consists of alternating lines of five and seven syllables; however, if the intensity of emotional expression is low, this distinction alone cannot save a poem from dropping into prose.
These low-delicacy distinctions are very important in registerial cartography; for example, they give us insight into the registerial profiles of different secondary school subjects and different university disciplines, as I will illustrate in Section 6.1 below (cf. Matthiessen 2009a).
The word "thug" wasn't included in this study, but if it had been it would have likely rated very low in distinction, and likely very high in worthlessness and stupidity.
Table 3 sums up how the high-low applicative distinction is made in Pylkkänen's analysis.
This amounts to saying that the high-low applicative distinction is non-existent and that all applicatives are high applicatives.
