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virago
In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays

the image of her as cold, inhuman, a virago, a phony

on Hillary Clinton

—p.181 Elect Sister Frigidaire (178) by Katie Roiphe
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rarefied

the rarefied, lonely demographic of woman too successful for love

—p.164 Is Maureen Dowd Necessary? (162) by Katie Roiphe
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frisson

one can't help but experience a puritanical frisson

on Mad Men

—p.146 The Perverse Allure of Messy Lives (145) by Katie Roiphe
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cormorant

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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