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covey
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He was the grandson of a Prime Minister and cousin or nephew to a covey of military, diplomatic, and ecclesiastical worthies.

on Bertrand Russell

—p.253 Ancient Glittering Eyes (249) by George Steiner
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meliorism

Cioran's stoic élitism, his rejection of meliorism à l'américaine

—p.247 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner
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tenebrous

they flatter the writer with the tenebrous incense of the oracular

—p.245 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner
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encomium

a graduate student launched on an encomium of times past

—p.244 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner
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somnambular

Our responses to crises display a certain somnambular automatism.

—p.243 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner
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