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epigone
At the New Yorker

Our arts and letters are, arguably, those of epigones.

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

the plangent but self-mocking lilt

—p.242 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner
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litote

A litote, as we find it persistently in the greatest of all French writers--in Racine--is the tightly, densely concentrated expression of some central immensity, or even enormity, in human recognitions and emotions.

—p.240 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner
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sententia

sententia (the Latin name for a one-sentence dictum or proposition)

—p.240 Short Shrift (239) by George Steiner
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entropology

defined by Claude Lévi-Strauss in contrast to anthropology

—p.238 The Lost Garden (230) by George Steiner
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