Definition: A tendency to express banal and obvious concepts pompously and loudly. Example: The practice of freedom, as for example on La Stampa, constitutes nothing more than the blasts of shareholder trombonism, by now reduced to a state of pure nostalgia, but hoisted as a club against dangerous and sulphurous revisionism. (Il Foglio; either my…
Someone just quoted me a bit of Clément Marot I didn’t know (OK, let’s be honest: I’d didn’t even know Marot): En tant qu’Ouy et Nenny se dira, Par l’univers le monde me lira. Which Leigh Hunt (The Companion, 1828) translates as: As long as Love says Yes and No, The universe shall read Marot.…
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