the brief collective phantasm of romanticism following the caesura of modernity

The riots marked a sharp caesura in the lives of Caribbean migrants to Britain

the caesura between bourgeois society and capitalism should not be conceived as some absolute discontinuity but rather as a problem to be resolved by historical studies

A time of abeyance for me, I have had small ones before, but none so long or profound as this. A caesura in my life.

Or that there wasn’t a caesura, that the career, as we call it, was something like a recipe experiment for the summer, something one had to have tried out before returning to regular recipes.

many felt that the step had been premature, that neither would Britain al­low such a caesura, nor could India survive on its own

This specific event, the caesura from Malaysia,

In that caesura so much richness lies

Those who wish today to philosophize in Marx not only come after him, but come after Marxism: they cannot be content merely to register the caesura Marx created, but must also think on the ambivalence of the effects that caesura produced – both in its proponents and its opponents

The caesura effected by Marx has been more or less clearly acknowledged, more or less willingly accepted; it has even given rise to violent refutations and strenuous attempts at neutralization

Another advantage of those voiced intrusions is to provide a kind of beat or a caesura in the ongoing narrative.