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modish
At the New Yorker

always modish governance of private patronage and mass-media trivialization

can guess the meaning but never seen it used like this before

—p.31 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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parlor-pink

It is parlor-pink talk in the approved nineteen-thirties style.

—p.30 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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scission

What are the sources of such scission?

—p.30 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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condign

He seems to have taken the news with condign aplomb

—p.27 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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sclerosis

against the cant of a sclerotic state religion

—p.21 The Cleric of Treason (13) by George Steiner
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