mincing minorities (im slipping)
This dominance is reflected especially in a society’s stratification structure
hierarchical arrangement of social classes
an existence that has become trite, mechanical, complacent...
overused, clichéd, lacking originality
the men of this government had a fanaticism of their own
excessive, uncritical zeal or obsession
Barnicle points out that a precedent has been set…
earlier legal decision serving as an example
Her myopic comment ended the conversation
short-sighted
A therapist is absolved of all liability if...
freed from blame or responsibility
breach this dead wall of complacency and automatism
behaving automatically without conscious thought
double jeopardy!
…used only occasionally, when a few honorific dignitaries give formal assent…”
Honorific: given as a mark of honor; ceremonial rather than functional
Assent: formal approval
What one story may have pointed out to me is of no avail in the writing of another.
benefit or usefulness
He delivered his speech unaware of how fatuous it sounded
silly or pointless
minority are a shiftless and lazy lot
lacking ambition, energy, or initiative; unwilling to make effort
In one way it castigates, satirically, the absurdity of lives…
criticizes severely
caused liberalism to seem almost as anachronistic as the liberals’ foe of feudalism
outdated; belonging to an earlier period
a cast of countenance here, a manner of walking there
facial expression or appearance
double jeopardy!
Even your lungs expostulate as they struggle to expel your ample corpulence
Expostulate: to protest or express strong disagreement
Corpulence: the state of being fat; obesity
Aragon defined poetic imagery as an instrument of radical reversals and caustic irony
sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way
in search of the Ineffable, to make us aware of ultimate realitie
too great or sacred to be expressed in words
Belatedly, man has been forced to recognize his responsibility
after a delay; too late
too overflowing, ever to be plumbed outside love
explored deeply; examined thoroughly
trying to fix the world feels Sisyphean, but doing nothing feels worse
endless, futile, repetitive
higher referential processes that can be consensually validated
confirmed by shared social agreement; recognized as real by others
It represents the pillorying of an inauthentic, petty society
publicly mocking or exposing to ridicule
also of monarchists, agrarians, representing the large landowners
landowners or agricultural interests, usually conservative
In his polemic supporting term limits, George Will acknowledges...
a forceful argument or controversial debate text
one could argue cloistering oneself from the world is itself a form of solipsism .... if one were being ungenerous
self-centered to the point of believing only one’s own reality matters