Word: trelliswork
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...elegantly consistent conservatism extending back to the origins of the Cold War), but it is not necessary that you do so. It will also help if you share Buckley's delight in the English language. He runs words through his fingers like doubloons. He likes to superimpose a trelliswork of formulations from the Greek or Latin (grids of the apodictic, the epistemological, the asymptotic) upon the subject at hand. Lacking the Latinate, he goes to the Latin - "pari passu," "tu quoque." Either you enjoy these linguistic plumage displays, as I do, or else you think he is merely showing...
...every bit as intricate. Fokine uses the ensemble dancers--the corps de ballet--with deft economy of rich imagination. At different times they function both as a choral commentary on the soloists, mirroring the angle of a ballerina's body, and as architecture, a fluid linkage of arches and trelliswork. The Boston Ballet's corps rose to the occasion, offering Fokine's masterpiece with devotion and care...
...grown to: 7,000,000 soldiers, among them nearly five British and better than five U.S. divisions stationed in West Germany; 5,000 tactical aircraft, most of them jets, on 160 airfields; batteries of U.S. atomic cannon and stockpiles of Matador guided missiles; twelve national navies; a vast trelliswork of communications, pipelines, storage dumps, officer-training schools. The immense martial array is controlled by three main international commands: SACLANT (for Atlantic convoy routes), CHANCOM (for the English Channel) and SACEUR (for Europe and the Mediterranean). Behind it lies the long-range strategic air power of the U.S. Strategic Air Command...
...York World's Fair's amusement area. This season, though the Aquacade is good as ever, it will be hard pressed by a brand-new jamboree called Gay New Orleans. Gay New Orleans is a picturesque settlement full of old Creole atmosphere: French-Quarter houses with trelliswork balconies, a planter's mansion, the famous Absinthe House, a Sazerac...
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