peroration
(en)
(noun) the concluding part of a discourse and especially an oration / (noun) a highly rhetorical speech
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The history of that movement echoes with the sonorous names of long-dead Austrian economists, of indefatigable door-knocking cadres, of soaring perorations on a nation finally poised to realize its rendezvous with destiny.
(on American conservatism)
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The history of that movement echoes with the sonorous names of long-dead Austrian economists, of indefatigable door-knocking cadres, of soaring perorations on a nation finally poised to realize its rendezvous with destiny.
(on American conservatism)
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hermetic
(en)
(of a seal or closure) complete and airtight
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The Viguerie Company's marketing genius was that as it continued metastasizing, it remained, in financial terms, a hermetic positive feedback loop.
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The Viguerie Company's marketing genius was that as it continued metastasizing, it remained, in financial terms, a hermetic positive feedback loop.
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5 years, 5 months ago
Manichaeism
(en)
an ancient religious movement that has to do with duality? "an elaborate dualistic cosmology describing the struggle between a good, spiritual world of light, and an evil, material world of darkness"
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since reality is never Manichean enough, fables have to do the requisite ideological heavy lifting
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since reality is never Manichean enough, fables have to do the requisite ideological heavy lifting
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5 years, 5 months ago