deus ex machina
(la)
(originally Greek) "god from the machine"; derives from the gods introduced by means of a crane in ancient Greek and Roman dramas; something introduced suddenly and unexpectedly that provides a contrived solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty
one is tempted to regard the fast-spreading rhetorical commitment to a new growth policy as the invocation of a deus ex machina able to make everybody equally happy
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7 years ago