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on E.M. Cioran
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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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sententia (the Latin name for a one-sentence dictum or proposition)
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sententia (the Latin name for a one-sentence dictum or proposition)
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litote
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understatement (feminine)
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A litote, as we find it persistently in the greatest of all French writers--in Racine--is the tightly, densely concentrated expression of some central immensity, or even enormity, in human recognitions and emotions.
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A litote, as we find it persistently in the greatest of all French writers--in Racine--is the tightly, densely concentrated expression of some central immensity, or even enormity, in human recognitions and emotions.
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plangent
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loud, reverberating, and often melancholy
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epigone
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(noun) follower disciple / (noun) an inferior imitator
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Our arts and letters are, arguably, those of epigones.
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Our arts and letters are, arguably, those of epigones.
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somnambular
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to walk or perform another act while asleep or in a sleeplike condition
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Our responses to crises display a certain somnambular automatism.
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Our responses to crises display a certain somnambular automatism.
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encomium
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a speech or piece of writing that praises someone or something highly (plural: encomia). as the adjective encomiastic, means bestowing praise, eulogistic, laudatory
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a graduate student launched on an encomium of times past
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a graduate student launched on an encomium of times past
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tenebrous
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(adjective) shut off from the light; dark murky / (adjective) hard to understand; obscure / (adjective) causing gloom
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they flatter the writer with the tenebrous incense of the oracular
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they flatter the writer with the tenebrous incense of the oracular
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meliorism
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(noun) the belief that the world tends to improve and that humans can aid its betterment
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Cioran's stoic élitism, his rejection of meliorism à l'américaine
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Cioran's stoic élitism, his rejection of meliorism à l'américaine
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