Word: jargonized
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...Brideshead, Charles the teen-ager can sound as curmudgeonly as his middle-aged maker: "I think the invention of movable type was a disaster, sir. It destroyed calligraphy." There is a dearth of incident, and most of the schoolboy repartee reads like a twit's guide to the jargon of the better classes...
...book's most frustrating flaw, however, lies less in its jargon than in its unfulfilled promise. Certain sections--a description of the war records are produced, a discussion of the music press--are genuinely compelling and informative...
...doublespeak jargon of Poland's military bosses, it was called Operation Calm. The two-day police sweep, as described in the government press last week, netted 145,000 curfew violators and other petty miscreants. Out of that group, 99,000 were "warned," 29,000 "lectured" and 7,000 fined on the spot. Some 3,900 people were hauled into police stations...
...diaries, which together form a most extensive record of his inner life, and quoting liberally therefrom, he is not obtrusive. His analytical passages seem to have been inserted into the narrative with maximum concern for short. American attention spans; they are humble and mostly insightful, free of excessive jargon-mongering, aware of the crushing bulk of Kafka criticism and content to suggest the clearest connections to the immediate moment of his life. If there are any complaints, they are that he is sometimes a bit oversolicitous and that he reminds us too often of Kafka's literary identification with animals...
...only a few weeks after Columbia's next launch, due March 22. Three more Arianes will be hurled aloft in 1982. The first will carry an Italian-made meteorological satellite and the British-built Marecs B maritime communications satellite. In fact, comsats, as they are known in space jargon, should continue to be Ariane's major and most lucrative cargo through the decade. Even at a cost of nearly $50 million apiece, excluding the launch fee, comsats can be a bargain, since they make it possible to transmit all sorts of information, from television pictures to computer data...