Jiang defines the New Yorker as bad writing because it can spend decades perfecting stylish language and theory while still signifying nothing.
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Bromwich dates the sonnets roughly to the Romeo and Juliet period and contrasts their ornate lyric form with the plainer dramatic style Shakespeare later reaches in Macbeth.
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"Do you guys read the New Yorker magazine? Just the most pretentious crap. In this world. Okay. They spent decades perfecting their crap. It's..."
"...years later uh and in a way is much plainer in style than the sonnets as sonnets are of course an ornate form compared..."
"...to ferreting profoundly can find no other difference between the two styles. He fell still contentedly."
"...You the only one from whom my writing drew the noble style from which I have been honored. You see the beast that made..."
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"...are experts in that area, unless the Americans have Star Wars -style weapons to use against the Iranians, then this is going to be..."
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"...lectures online. And the reason, why, is that the sort of style of learning that happened offline and online in China was consistent, right?..."
"...was it was this zionist judaism post -america post -holocaust american style judaism but in particular one"
"...maybe to try to stay, I mean, besides a naval blockade style war, it sounds like the US is, I mean, it, it, it,..."
"...household appliances was projected as a near guaranteed benefit of American style freedom. The key to this was increased productivity on American style production..."
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