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

that raffish play with eloquence

I thought it was a synonym of rakish!

—p.125 Mary Austin and The Land of Little Rain (115) by Robert Hass
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weir

that the grand struggle for existence is a dream, a meaningless bubble in the meaningless weirs of the evolution of matter

—p.102 Jack London in His Time: Martin Eden (97) by Robert Hass
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emendation

It requires an emendation

—p.93 Study War No More: Violence, Literature, and Immanuel Kant (69) by Robert Hass
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peroration

This is peroration, a way of saying that reading Immanuel Kant led me to wonder if his essay embodies what reason brings to the idea of perpetual peace

—p.76 Study War No More: Violence, Literature, and Immanuel Kant (69) by Robert Hass
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prosody

what was really going on at the level of prosody was not a presentation of the image as a picture but an analysis of the constitutive elements of the image as it is being presented

—p.56 George Oppen: His Art (52) by Robert Hass
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