Word: insofar
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...lamentable that Mamet’s actual writing doesn’t do a better job of motivating his arguments, because he does occasionally make truly insightful observations. In a chapter titled “Hunting Instincts” he compares the theatrical experience to that of a hunt, insofar as the audience experiences a primal drive to follow the plot along. He uses this metaphor to account for the suspension of disbelief: “We suspend the rational process of intellectualization, which is to say, of the comparison of phenomenon to idea, which is a process too slow...
There are three prime occasions for Facebook stalking at Harvard—Opening Days, shopping week, and admissions season. Insofar as admissions season is concerned, is there a better way to get to know the entering class than by inspecting their profile pictures and favorite music? Well, the Harvard Undergraduate Admissions Council thinks they have a better idea: last weekend they hosted a Dial-a-Prefrosh event and spoke with admitted students about life at Harvard...
...each word set down deliberately as a pin through the thorax of a butterfly—was for Nabokov a conscious choice, allowing him to scale ever more crystalline summits. “For me,” he wrote, “a work of fiction exists only insofar as it affords me what I shall bluntly call aesthetic bliss...
...That’s kind of my niche—how one orchestrates the financial angle to support, in the best possible way, the academic mission,” Sterritt said. “What we’ve tried to do at Stanford—insofar as it is possible—is to make the budget cuts invisible to students...