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cormorant
In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays

sheer verbal power, the cormorant-like ingestion of experience

a New Republic critique of Updike

—p.133 Rabbit at Rest (133) missing author
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portentous

She did clipped irony and she did sentences swelling with portent.

—p.108 Joan Didion (102) by Katie Roiphe
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elision

The usual elisions occur

—p.106 Joan Didion (102) by Katie Roiphe
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brio

Joan Didion, for all her stylistic brio, becomes straightforward

—p.106 Joan Didion (102) by Katie Roiphe
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lacuna

for memoirs, they still leave holes, pockets of deliberate vagueness, writerly lacunae

on Joan Didion's memoirs (Year, Blue Nights)

—p.102 Joan Didion (102) by Katie Roiphe
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