Joyce

[ jois ]

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noun

James (Augustine Aloysius), 1882–1941, Irish novelist.
William Lord Haw-Haw, 1906–46, U.S. and English Nazi propagandist in Germany.
a female or male given name: from a French word meaning “joy.”

Joyce

/ dʒɔɪs /

JoyceJames (Augustine Aloysius)18821941MIrishWRITING: novelistWRITING: short-story writer James ( Augustine Aloysius ). 1882–1941, Irish novelist and short-story writer. He profoundly influenced the development of the modern novel by his use of complex narrative techniques, esp stream of consciousness and parody, and of compound and coined words. His works include the novels Ulysses (1922) and Finnegans Wake (1939) and the short stories Dubliners (1914)
JoyceWilliam19061946MBritishPOLITICS: Nazi propagandist William, known as Lord Haw-Haw. 1906–46, British broadcaster of Nazi propaganda to Britain, who was executed for treason

I really turned on in particular to James Joyce, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Günter Grass.

Psychologist Joyce Benenson has spent 25 years studying the different ways men and women compete.

That Joyce has stopped being about literature and is almost a religion to a lot of people.

On our way back into Città Vecchia we poke our heads into some random, hole-in-the-wall joints looking for signs of Joyce.

This is where Joyce began writing Circe, the night town episode of Ulysses.

When they were gone, Cynthia and Joyce turned and looked long and incredulously into each other's eyes.

Then came the strange note this morning, which I believe you, Miss Joyce, are responsible for!

Joyce, and Mr. Armiger, and my father and mother with me, where they stand till I was weary of their company and so away.

In comes Will Joyce to us drunk, and in a talking vapouring humour of his state, and I know not what, which did vex me cruelly.

Pall, who went this day to a child's christening of Kate Joyce's, staid out all night at my father's, she not being well.

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