(noun) a literary term coined by Alexander Pope to describe to describe amusingly failed attempts at sublimity (an effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous); adj is "bathetic"
Dishwasher safety is the perfect bathetic note for Hohn to strike about these rubber duckies
Dishwasher safety is the perfect bathetic note for Hohn to strike about these rubber duckies
(adjective) mournful / (adjective) exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful / (adjective) dismal
Your local café’s barista may literally depend on Bon Iver’s reedy lugubriousness to palliate a dreary job as you depend on coffee
Your local café’s barista may literally depend on Bon Iver’s reedy lugubriousness to palliate a dreary job as you depend on coffee
(noun) the act of renouncing or rejecting something; self-denial
One radical option remains: abnegation — some “Great Refusal” to obey the obscure social injunction that condemns us to a lifetime of listening
One radical option remains: abnegation — some “Great Refusal” to obey the obscure social injunction that condemns us to a lifetime of listening
(verb) to renounce upon oath / (verb) to reject solemnly / (verb) to abstain from; avoid
the country had abjured all available weapons for combating recession
the country had abjured all available weapons for combating recession
a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory
Encomia to these neoliberalizing achievements were the stuff of virtually all Argentina coverage in the English-language business press of the ’90s.
Encomia to these neoliberalizing achievements were the stuff of virtually all Argentina coverage in the English-language business press of the ’90s.
the highest point in the development of something; culmination or climax
Three years earlier his second wife, Eva Perón, a former actress and an impassioned champion of the working class, had succumbed to cancer and been apotheosized as a martyr of the laboring poor.
Three years earlier his second wife, Eva Perón, a former actress and an impassioned champion of the working class, had succumbed to cancer and been apotheosized as a martyr of the laboring poor.
(noun) evasion of straightforward action or clear-cut statement; equivocation / (noun) desertion of a cause, position, party, or faith
No doubt almost any consistent economic policy and stable form of government would have served Argentina better between World War II and the Falklands debacle than constant, bloody tergiversation
i can't believe this is a word holy shit
No doubt almost any consistent economic policy and stable form of government would have served Argentina better between World War II and the Falklands debacle than constant, bloody tergiversation
i can't believe this is a word holy shit
when a word or phrase has multiple meanings (from Greek)
translating one of Prynne’s poems involves committing to particular definitions of words that are intentionally polysemic
translating one of Prynne’s poems involves committing to particular definitions of words that are intentionally polysemic
(adjective) habitually complaining / (adjective) fretful whining
a sort of querulous complicity composed of friendship, gratitude, and interest
a sort of querulous complicity composed of friendship, gratitude, and interest
(noun) a strand or fiber used to sew parts of the living body / (noun) a stitch made with a suture / (noun) the act or process of sewing with sutures / (noun) a uniting of parts / (noun) the seam or seamlike line along which two things or parts are sewed or united / (noun) the line of union in an immovable articulation (as between the bones of the skull) / (noun) such an articulation / (noun) a furrow at the junction of adjacent bodily parts / (noun) a line of dehiscence (as on a fruit) / (verb) to unite, close, or secure with sutures / (noun) a suture extending across the skull between the parietal and frontal bones
With me he’s sutured the gap in his civilian life.
pretty
With me he’s sutured the gap in his civilian life.
pretty