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sedulous
(en)
(adjective) involving or accomplished with careful perseverance / (adjective) diligent in application or pursuit
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Press coverage of the industry was boosterish and sedulously uninvestigative, as journalists tended to embrace Google’s old “Don’t be evil” motto as a factual description of its aims
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Press coverage of the industry was boosterish and sedulously uninvestigative, as journalists tended to embrace Google’s old “Don’t be evil” motto as a factual description of its aims
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echt
(en)
(adjective) true genuine
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a bevy (it really is the only word for it, echt B-movie stuff) of beautiful girls surrounded me
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a bevy (it really is the only word for it, echt B-movie stuff) of beautiful girls surrounded me
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writ large
(en)
clear and obvious, in a stark or exaggerated form
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a terrible trial for poor Angus, who felt he’d done nothing to deserve it. He stalked off the yacht at the earliest possible opportunity, injured innocence writ large on his brow.
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a terrible trial for poor Angus, who felt he’d done nothing to deserve it. He stalked off the yacht at the earliest possible opportunity, injured innocence writ large on his brow.
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limpid
(en)
(adjective) marked by transparency; pellucid / (adjective) clear and simple in style / (adjective) absolutely serene and untroubled
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spend the afternoons swimming in the limpid water
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spend the afternoons swimming in the limpid water
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variegated
(en)
(adj) exhibiting different colors, especially as irregular patches or streaks
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I have noticed this tendency to reductionism in X before. The text is infinitely variegated, the subtext always the same.
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I have noticed this tendency to reductionism in X before. The text is infinitely variegated, the subtext always the same.
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pallid
(en)
(adjective) deficient in color; wan / (adjective) lacking sparkle or liveliness; dull
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American spies are naïfs or pallid sidekicks
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American spies are naïfs or pallid sidekicks
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mise-en-abyme
(fr)
term derived from heraldry; means "placed into abyss"
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The mole offers the spy story its mise en abyme: their every act is at once real and false, an embodied double negative; they threaten at every moment to double or triple themselves
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The mole offers the spy story its mise en abyme: their every act is at once real and false, an embodied double negative; they threaten at every moment to double or triple themselves
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bathos
(en)
(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"
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traduce
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(verb) to expose to shame or blame by means of falsehood and misrepresentation / (verb) violate betray
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The agency may in fact be the villain in most postwar spy stories: it tries to eliminate Jason Bourne, it traduces its employees like Milo Weaver or David Morgan
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The agency may in fact be the villain in most postwar spy stories: it tries to eliminate Jason Bourne, it traduces its employees like Milo Weaver or David Morgan
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homily
(en)
(noun) a usually short sermon / (noun) a lecture or discourse on or of a moral theme / (noun) an inspirational catchphrase or platitude. homiletic: the art of preaching or writing sermons
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