aureate
(en)
(adjective) of a golden color or brilliance / (adjective) marked by grandiloquent and rhetorical style
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which is not exactly belletristic but certainly isn't written in aureate academese
on Peter Singer's "What Should a Billionaire Give?"
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which is not exactly belletristic but certainly isn't written in aureate academese
on Peter Singer's "What Should a Billionaire Give?"
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7 years, 5 months ago
causerie
(en)
(noun) an informal conversation; chat / (noun) a short informal essay
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several of this year's Best Essays are arguably more like causeries or propos than like essay per se
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several of this year's Best Essays are arguably more like causeries or propos than like essay per se
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anomie
(en)
lack of the usual social or ethical standards in an individual or group, which lessens social cohesion and fosters decline; popularized by French sociologist Émile Durkheim in his influential book Suicide
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we, like diminished kings or rigidly insecure presidents, are reduced to being overwhelmed by info and interpretation, or else paralyzed by cynicism and anomie, or else--worst--seduced by some particular set of dogmatic talking-points, whether these be PC or NRA, rationalist or evangelical, "Cut and Run" or "No Blood for Oil"
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7 years, 5 months ago
we, like diminished kings or rigidly insecure presidents, are reduced to being overwhelmed by info and interpretation, or else paralyzed by cynicism and anomie, or else--worst--seduced by some particular set of dogmatic talking-points, whether these be PC or NRA, rationalist or evangelical, "Cut and Run" or "No Blood for Oil"
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7 years, 5 months ago