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antiphrasis
Mythologies: The Complete Edition, in a New Translation

All such things inform us, by antiphrasis, about a certain ideal nature of everyday life

on the wondrous way in which the press recounts the quotidian behaviour of the royals on the cruise

—p.27 The "Blue Blood" Cruise (26) by Roland Barthes
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empyrean

the man of letters quickly returns to the empyrean he shares with the professionals of the vocation

—p.23 The Writer on Vacation (22) by Roland Barthes
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logorrhoea

The second advantage of this logorrhea is that by its imperative character it passes quite naturally for the writer's very essence.

—p.23 The Writer on Vacation (22) by Roland Barthes
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charivari

Certain fights, and the most successful ones, are crowned with a final charivari, a kind of frenzied fantasia

—p.12 In The Ring (3) by Roland Barthes
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immanence

What is involved, then, of course, is an immanent justice.

of "payback" in wrestling

—p.10 In The Ring (3) by Roland Barthes
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