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(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)

—p.29 The Long Con: Mail-Order Conservatism (23) by Rick Perlstein
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5 years, 4 months ago

such perorations are like the incantation of a devotional prayer: they call down the mercies of a remote techno-deity in order to ritually cleanse the grubbier aspirations of the business-strategizing, keynote-speaking class

—p.234 All LinkedIn with Nowhere to Go (227) by Ann Friedman
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5 years, 4 months ago


The JEsuit delivers a peroration on the necessity of the "leap outward" into adulthood

—p.122 Untrendy Problems: The Pale King’s Philosophical Inspirations (113) by Jon Baskin
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3 years, 2 months ago


If we consider that this peroration in favor of truly universal fraternité was written nearly one hundred and fifty years before the French revolution

—p.22 Lightness (3) by Italo Calvino
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2 months, 2 weeks ago


There is conversation (rather than peroration)

—p.85 Presential Attention (83) by Yves Citton
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6 years, 5 months ago


closing the scene with a rather lovely peroration

—p.60 Cormac McCarthy's The Road (50) by James Wood
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6 years, 7 months ago


This is peroration, a way of saying that reading Immanuel Kant led me to wonder if his essay embodies what reason brings to the idea of perpetual peace

—p.76 Study War No More: Violence, Literature, and Immanuel Kant (69) by Robert Hass
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4 years, 3 months ago


Time returns in the peroration, but in a different way: as an expression, Lincoln-like, of humility.

—p.13 The Obama Speeches (9) missing author
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3 years, 5 months ago