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(noun) sustained and bitter railing and condemnation; vituperative utterance / (noun) an act or instance of vituperating

57

commenting vituperatively on the imitators of modernity in other languages who are totally unaware of what motivated the French

—p.57 by Czesław Miłosz
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commenting vituperatively on the imitators of modernity in other languages who are totally unaware of what motivated the French

—p.57 by Czesław Miłosz
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4 years, 4 months ago

kind of supplement attached to the political portion of French newspapers, consisting chiefly of non-political news and gossip, literature and art criticism, a chronicle of the latest fashions, and epigrams, charades and other literary trifles

154

writing his feuilletons for The Universal Weekly

—p.154 by Czesław Miłosz
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writing his feuilletons for The Universal Weekly

—p.154 by Czesław Miłosz
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(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

277

As pedantic prose, it has potent soporific properties.

—p.277 by Czesław Miłosz
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As pedantic prose, it has potent soporific properties.

—p.277 by Czesław Miłosz
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4 years, 4 months ago