Day 1,319: humbling, call into question, pharaonic
The humbling in the markets calls into question Mr Adani’s pharaonic ambitions.
Artwork of the day
A Johan Sebastian Bach Humblement
Gerda Wegener
Date: 1936
Style: Art Deco
Genre: genre painting
Word of the day
humbling: causing someone to understand that they are not as important or special as they thought
call into question: to cause doubts about something
pharaonic: impressively or overwhelmingly large, luxurious, etc
Quote of the day
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
― J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the