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an edict of the Russian government OR an arbitrary command

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enlightened critique rather than the brutal ukases of an authoritarian politics

on the bourgeois public sphere

—p.9 by Terry Eagleton
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enlightened critique rather than the brutal ukases of an authoritarian politics

on the bourgeois public sphere

—p.9 by Terry Eagleton
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unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable

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the ineluctably negative movement of criticism

—p.20 by Terry Eagleton
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the ineluctably negative movement of criticism

—p.20 by Terry Eagleton
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(adjective) having a menacing quality; threatening

21

The very business of criticism, with its minatory overtones of conflict and dissension

—p.21 by Terry Eagleton
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The very business of criticism, with its minatory overtones of conflict and dissension

—p.21 by Terry Eagleton
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tending to promote peace or reconciliation; peaceful or conciliatory (alt: irenic); a part of Christian theology

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light, eirenic, and urbane at the very point of satiric ridicule

—p.21 by Terry Eagleton
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light, eirenic, and urbane at the very point of satiric ridicule

—p.21 by Terry Eagleton
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translucently clear

22

folded into a language at once mannerly and pellucid

—p.22 by Terry Eagleton
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folded into a language at once mannerly and pellucid

—p.22 by Terry Eagleton
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(adjective) of, relating to, or being speech used for social or emotive purposes rather than for communicating information

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the communication [...] is in an important sense 'phatic'; a deployment of the appropriate forms and conventions of discourse which has as its goal nothing more than the delightful exercise of taste and reason

—p.26 by Terry Eagleton
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the communication [...] is in an important sense 'phatic'; a deployment of the appropriate forms and conventions of discourse which has as its goal nothing more than the delightful exercise of taste and reason

—p.26 by Terry Eagleton
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a brief moral saying taken from ancient or popular or other sources, often quoted without context; as an adjective, means either given to aphoristic expression, or just referring to an aphoristic expression. or: 'in a way that tries to sound important or intelligent, especially by expressing moral judgements'

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the sententious authority of his flamboyantly individualistic style

—p.32 by Terry Eagleton
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the sententious authority of his flamboyantly individualistic style

—p.32 by Terry Eagleton
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(noun) the principle or aim of promoting unity among the world's Christian churches.

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in dramatic contrast to the ecumenicism of an Addison or Steele

—p.37 by Terry Eagleton
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in dramatic contrast to the ecumenicism of an Addison or Steele

—p.37 by Terry Eagleton
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(adjective) using or given to coarse language / (adjective) vulgar and evil / (adjective) containing obscenities, abuse, or slander

37

the scurrility and sectarian virulence

—p.37 by Terry Eagleton
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the scurrility and sectarian virulence

—p.37 by Terry Eagleton
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(adjective) tending to break up into parts; divisive

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the fissiparousness of public opinion

—p.39 by Terry Eagleton
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the fissiparousness of public opinion

—p.39 by Terry Eagleton
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