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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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epigone

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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