Jiang's metaphor for emerging mass sentiment or elite realignment that savvy media figures sense early and then surf for influence.
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political winds
A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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A source-grounded reading of a long Dante seminar that starts with a student dreaming of a tree across water and ends by redefining Purgatory as democratic hope, free will, dangerous guidance, prayer for the...
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"...have in America, they need to be able to read the political winds properly. OK, so I'm not saying that Donald Trump and Candace..."
"...because they're able to have a sixth sense of where the political winds are shifting and how to best position yourself in a certain..."
"...I sensed something much like the motion of a wing, and wind that beat against my face and words, beati passivici, those free of..."
"...or ample tremors but here above I know not why no wind concealed in earth has ever caused a tremor for it only trembles..."
"...talking, but conversing we moved quickly like a boat a fair wind drives. And recognizing that I was alive, the shades, they seemed to..."
"...flowers and in grass, stirs fragrantly, so did I feel the wind that blew against the center of my body, and clearly sent the..."
"...hurls its flames, but from the terrace side there whirls a wind that pushes back the fire and limits it. Thus on the open..."
"...the horrid deed in every eye that tears shall drown the wind I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but..."
"...in that strong metaphor about the newborn babe pity striding the wind and confesses that he has only vaulting"
"...tower that does not shake at summit through the though the winds may blast always the man in whom thought thrusts ahead of thought..."
"...and with the power his nature grants he stirred up you wind and vapor and then when day was gone he filled the valley..."
"...their heads on golden banners eagles were represented moving in the wind. Among that crowd a miserable woman seemed to be saying, Lord, avenge..."
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