noun. Mayonnaise is a colloid. Mayonnaise is a colloid. The definition of a colloid is a combination of molecules mixed through other substances that will not settle out or join with the other substance. Mayonnaise and blood are both examples of colloids.
The story's opening operates on a contrast. At the same time that it introduces the reader to Jonathanâs constructive outlook, it obliquely references the extent of the war's devastation. Jonathan not only considers himself lucky, but has an almost dazed optimism in his manner and attitude.
I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows that he cannot say to her I love you madly, because he knows that she knows (and that she knows he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still there is a solution.