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recondite

Moving beyond these recondite readings from the Romney common-touch barometer

—p.299 Follow the Money: The Washington Post's Pageant of Folly (291) by Chris Lehmann
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rarefied

Anastasia recognizes that she's destined to abandon her ordinary, middle-class life in favor of the rarefied veal pen of the modern power elite.

—p.164 Fifty Shades of Late Capitalism (161) by Heather Havrilesky
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hermetic

The Viguerie Company's marketing genius was that as it continued metastasizing, it remained, in financial terms, a hermetic positive feedback loop.

—p.30 The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism (23) by Rick Perlstein
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peroration

The history of that movement echoes with the sonorous names of long-dead Austrian economists, of indefatigable door-knocking cadres, of soaring perorations on a nation finally poised to realize its rendezvous with destiny.

(on American conservatism)

—p.29 The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism (23) by Rick Perlstein
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aporia

the need described above is intensified by an aporia that occurs whenever someone tries to explain the most blatant contradiction that characterises austerity-and-crisis Greece

—p.157 Back to Piraeus: Precarity for All! (145) by Carolin Philipp, Dimitris Parsanoglou
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