ukase
(en)
an edict of the Russian government OR an arbitrary command
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enlightened critique rather than the brutal ukases of an authoritarian politics
on the bourgeois public sphere
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enlightened critique rather than the brutal ukases of an authoritarian politics
on the bourgeois public sphere
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ineluctable
(en)
unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable
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the ineluctably negative movement of criticism
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the ineluctably negative movement of criticism
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minatory
(en)
(adjective) having a menacing quality; threatening
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The very business of criticism, with its minatory overtones of conflict and dissension
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The very business of criticism, with its minatory overtones of conflict and dissension
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eirenic
(en)
tending to promote peace or reconciliation; peaceful or conciliatory (alt: irenic); a part of Christian theology
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light, eirenic, and urbane at the very point of satiric ridicule
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light, eirenic, and urbane at the very point of satiric ridicule
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6 years, 11 months ago
pellucid
(en)
translucently clear
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folded into a language at once mannerly and pellucid
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folded into a language at once mannerly and pellucid
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phatic
(en)
(adjective) of, relating to, or being speech used for social or emotive purposes rather than for communicating information
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the communication [...] is in an important sense 'phatic'; a deployment of the appropriate forms and conventions of discourse which has as its goal nothing more than the delightful exercise of taste and reason
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the communication [...] is in an important sense 'phatic'; a deployment of the appropriate forms and conventions of discourse which has as its goal nothing more than the delightful exercise of taste and reason
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6 years, 11 months ago
sententia
(en)
a brief moral saying taken from ancient or popular or other sources, often quoted without context; as an adjective, means either given to aphoristic expression, or just referring to an aphoristic expression. or: 'in a way that tries to sound important or intelligent, especially by expressing moral judgements'
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the sententious authority of his flamboyantly individualistic style
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the sententious authority of his flamboyantly individualistic style
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ecumenicism
(en)
(noun) the principle or aim of promoting unity among the world's Christian churches.
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in dramatic contrast to the ecumenicism of an Addison or Steele
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in dramatic contrast to the ecumenicism of an Addison or Steele
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scurrilous
(en)
(adjective) using or given to coarse language / (adjective) vulgar and evil / (adjective) containing obscenities, abuse, or slander
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fissiparous
(en)
(adjective) tending to break up into parts; divisive
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