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glissando
What Light Can Do: Essays on Art, Imagination, and the Natural World

the long glissando wail of the clarinet that begins George Gershwin’s 1924 composition Rhapsody in Blue

—p.433 Black Nature (432) by Robert Hass
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lapidary

McCarthy is capable of lifting out of this hypnotic and lapidary directness into high Faulknerian crash-and-burn

—p.429 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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vatic

their vatic sayings

—p.426 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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mendicant

the reader, reduced to something like mendicant vulnerability by its more nerve-wrenching moments

—p.426 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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picaresque

blending between the medieval romance and the early picaresque novel

—p.425 Cormac McCarthy's Trilogy; or, The Puritan Conscience and the Mexican Dark (421) by Robert Hass
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