Word: pseudo
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...sadly common enough for students of literature who harbor a passion for philosophy to find their curiosity rebuffed by arrogant university departments. Obsessed with their private jargon games, these faculties dismiss other disciplines as dealing with “pseudo-problems” at best and, at worst, fanning the flames of irresponsible politics. But in the late Richard Rorty, we have a philosopher from the analytic tradition who became its Judas, who boldly addressed continental thinkers like Nietzsche, Freud, and Heidegger, and writers like Proust, Yeats, and Nabokov...
...other places can a diner be so richly steeped in the dramatic vicissitudes of recent Russian history. This stately turreted mansion was built in 1889 in a pseudo-medieval style for Prince Svyatopolk-Chervertinsky and later the same year was bought by Countess Alexandra Olsufyeva...
...came to Blodgett Pool replete with energy, pseudo-instruments, and a crew of boisterous, slightly-inebriated frat boys. The Engineers would leave with their heads held low, their minds as numbingly confused as the MIT defense in the fourth quarter. In a game not soon to be forgotten, the Harvard faithful saw the men’s water polo team light up the evening with 6 goals in the fourth quarter en route to an 11-8 victory over visiting MIT. Junior David Tune orchestrated two offensive assaults on the Engineer net, tying the game at eight a piece...
...bends over in front of him while retrieving her cat. My roommate's years of practice in passing for straight before family members have clearly paid off. When he recounts the tale to me later, I am actually outraged that another woman had the gall to try seducing my pseudo-boyfriend...
...near-explicit: the Death Eaters agitate for the rounding up of Muggle-born wizards and "race traitors" the same way Jews and their sympathizers were rounded up under the Third Reich. The Ministry of Magic comes to resemble The Ministry of Truth from 1984, complete with a pseudo-Fascist bureaucracy and a Muggle-Born Registration Commission headed by no less a personage than Dolores Umbridge (now permanently merged with Imelda Staunton, thanks to Staunton's indelible performance in the movie version of Order of the Phoenix). Rowling has never been a risk-taker, politically speaking, and this is hardly...