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vituperation
In Praise of Messy Lives: Essays

there is punitive, vituperative quality in the published reviews

—p.63 The Naked and the Conflicted (63) by Katie Roiphe
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odalisque

the irresistible odalisques sprawled across his dorm bed

—p.50 Beautiful Boy, Warm Night (47) by Katie Roiphe
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gestalt

she was kind of wonderful-looking, with her fabulous, disheveled gestalt

—p.48 Beautiful Boy, Warm Night (47) by Katie Roiphe
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a regular, complicated person

[...] Part of what seems threatening or unsettling about the single mother's household is precisely the sense that the mother may be glimpsed as more of a person, that these children are witnessing a struggle they should not be seeing, that their mother is very early on a regular, complicated perso…

—p.26 The Alchemy of Quiet Malice (15) by Katie Roiphe