Word: pseudo
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...Medieval cathedrals, name nine. Think up a few specific examples of “contemporary decadence,” like Natalie Wood. If you can’t come up with titles, try a few sharp metaphors of your own; they at least have the solid clink of pseudo-facts...
...congressional majority may burden Democrats with some perceived responsibility for the country's allegedly parlous state. But the presidency and the President will still tend to dominate the news and be held accountable--and the Bush Administration is proving particularly adept at providing ever fresh instances of scandal, pseudo scandal and incompetence to remind people they're in charge...
...mistake to abandon the idea of progress because history does not follow a linear path to social harmony or because most progress—though certainly not all—has an embarrassingly Western origin. As logical positivists like Wittgenstein showed, it is a “pseudo-problem” to argue over which value system or civilization is objectively superior, but in empirical terms of human happiness, progress is a fact, one that it would be a disservice to human history and the future to deny...
...with gold, and on it were graven runes of victory. A power was in it that guarded any who wore it from wound or death, for the sword that hewed it was broken, and the dart that smote it sprang aside." Et cetera. The book also comes with some pseudo-Blakean illustrations by Alan Lee.) But once you surrender to the richness of Tolkien's vision, the immersive detail of it, the faux-archaic diction barely registers. Children, as a short work, never achieves the towering operatic grandeur of the trilogy, but it's a huge pleasure to be back...
...older, trying to break his family's cycle of dysfunction--mirror his business problem: figuring out who will lead the Mob family after him. Consigliere Silvio (Steven Van Zandt) proved unsuited to lead; protg Christopher (Michael Imperioli) is off making his low-budget Mafia-slasher movie, with a pseudo-Tony played by Daniel Baldwin. ("Imitation's a form of flattery," Tony says with a shrug. "He's a tough prick, that Baldwin...