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quiddity
The Fun Stuff: And Other Essays

the one that best captures the quiddity of the Hebrew

on the KJV translation

—p.132 Robert Alter and the King James Bible (128) by James Wood
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laconic

the laconic report of Joseph's response to his brothers works by starving us of information

good word that I should use more often

—p.130 Robert Alter and the King James Bible (128) by James Wood
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paratactic

The paratactic verses with their repeated 'and' move like the hands of those large old railway-station clocks that jolted visibly from minute to minute

—p.130 Robert Alter and the King James Bible (128) by James Wood
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mimetic

Biblical style is famous for its stony reticence, for a mimesis that Erich Auerbach called 'fraught with background'

—p.130 Robert Alter and the King James Bible (128) by James Wood
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Oxonian

How could Vidia not have wanted to defend his father as soon as the Oxonian looked down his nose at him?

—p.120 Wounder and Wounded (115) by James Wood
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