'periphrasis' in Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction | Bookmarker

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(noun) use of a longer phrasing in place of a possible shorter form of expression / (noun) an instance of periphrasis

Conversely, giving a summary of these books is like producing a Mahler medley, condensing periphrastic brass into a brief fanfare

—p.265 Conducting Mortality: On Henry-Louis de La Grange’s Mahler (260) by Joshua Cohen

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