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such perorations are like the incantation of a devotional prayer: they call down the mercies of a remote techno-deity in order to ritually cleanse the grubbier aspirations of the business-strategizing, keynote-speaking class

a weirdly totalizing kind of centrism: keep your political ideas as anodyne as your business aphorisms

since reality is never Manichean enough, fables have to do the requisite ideological heavy lifting

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

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.