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bathos

The horror has passed, and what remains is the slow, lingering bathos as people shuffle into the future.

Bathos flutters over this later novel like a pennant: tragedy has been abolished.

—p.177 On Gary Indiana (171) by n+1
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sansculottes

Indiana the sansculotte

—p.172 On Gary Indiana (171) by n+1
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demotic

Medvedev, who began as a demotic poet

—p.108 New Russian Political Poets (107) by Keith Gessen
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obverse

organizations specializing in these tactics tend not to produce mass engagement by a movement’s true-believing base. The obverse is also true. It’s nearly impossible to run a tent city, for instance, and at the same time get a well-sourced policy paper

—p.95 Who Works for the Workers? (91) by Gabriel Winant
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aver

The audience, which leaned romantic, grumbled at the pessimism. The speakers demurred. That’s just how it is, they averred. We just have to do all of them.

—p.92 Who Works for the Workers? (91) by Gabriel Winant
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