a thing that is very old or old-fashioned (i.e., archaic)
This reliance on already-existing forms of identification - all those nationalisms and religions, with any number of archaisms ready to crawl out of the crypt - is what postmodernism has been.
This reliance on already-existing forms of identification - all those nationalisms and religions, with any number of archaisms ready to crawl out of the crypt - is what postmodernism has been.
(noun) a division or split in a group or union; schism / (noun) an action or process of cutting, dividing, or splitting; the state of being cut, divided, or split
The tension that has defined the neoliberal right for forty years - in which ostensibly opposing positions in practice complemented one another - has now become a scission.
The tension that has defined the neoliberal right for forty years - in which ostensibly opposing positions in practice complemented one another - has now become a scission.
(adjective) causing or tending to cause sleep / (adjective) tending to dull awareness or alertness / (adjective) of, relating to, or marked by sleepiness or lethargy / (noun) a soporific agent / (noun) hypnotic
these soporific linguistic screensavers
in defense of writing that could be seen as pretentious
these soporific linguistic screensavers
in defense of writing that could be seen as pretentious
in a way that cannot be removed or forgotten
the marks of class are designed to be indelible
the marks of class are designed to be indelible
(adjective) mournful / (adjective) exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful / (adjective) dismal
perplexing us with its lugubrious dementria
perplexing us with its lugubrious dementria